Collected in situ by French anthropologist Robert Gessain during the 1934-35 Greenland Expedition. Exhibited in Paris in 1935 and published in Demoulin-Bernard's "Masques", "1965: placing it among the best documented Ammassalimiut masks known today. This mask embodies the deep spiritual world of the Ammassalimiut: human and animal merging through carved lines, fur, breath, and presence.

Ammassalimiut Mask
wood and polar bear fur
circa 1930s
Ammassalik Region, Greenland

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