Record details

• Physical Description: vii, 246 pages, 12 unnumbered color leaves of plates : illustrations (some in color), map ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1967.
• Copyright: �1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Text includes illustrations of the entire Lowie Museum collection.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I. A vision becomes a mask -- One. Introduction -- Two. The Shaman and the mask -- Three. Masks in dances and festivals -- Four. Carving a mask -- Five. Archeological-historical relationships -- Part II. Plates -- Description of plates -- Bibliography -- Index.

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