Description
“The mask represents Walaunuk which means Bubbles, as they rise up through the water, future success in hunting and fishing could be foretold by watching bubbles rise from sinking bladders.”
Mask carved of walrus ivory along with bubbles, ivory teeth. Wood hands by the cheeks and wood sticks sticking out the jaw area with baleen dangles on one-side and ivory dangles on the other by Inupiaq artist Tom Tiulana of King Island, Alaska.
