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Record #191688:

Avataq unearths Dorset face mask from Nunavik island / Randy Boswell.

Title: Avataq unearths Dorset face mask from Nunavik island / Randy Boswell.
Author(s): Boswell, Randy.
Date: 2010.
In: Nunatsiaq News. (2010.), Vol. 38(23) (2010)
Abstract: Reports discovery of small, elaborately carved mask, possibly worn as amulet by shaman acting as Dorset tribe's guide to spirit world. Mask is believed to have been made from walrus ivory, and was found on one of Nuvuk islands at north-west tip of Ungava Peninsula.
Notes:

Nunatsiaq News. Vol. 38(23) :5 (2010).

Keywords: 291.612 -- Shamanism.
398 -- Native peoples, folk beliefs and tales.
903 -- Archaeology: Dorset.
93"04/14" -- Fifth to fifteenth centuries A.D.
U -- Archaeology.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*41) -- Canada.
(*424.1) -- Quebec, northern.
SPRI record no.: 191688

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