people had come to Nome, the trading center of northwestern 116 Alaska, to barter with each other and to participate in song and dance festivals, as well as to take advantage of the tourist season by selling furs, bone carvings, and other curios to Western visitors. The people of Nunivak did not usually travel as far as Nome. They lived in isolation on their island and rarely went further to trade than St. Michael on the southern coast of Norton Sound. They were so far from home this time only because they had been summoned by the court in Nome to testify against one of their own, a shaman who had been accused of murder. Given that Rasmussen was primarily interested in interviewing representatives of Eskimo cultures in which Western civilization had not FIG. 18: Dance mask. Inuit, Point Hope, northern Alaska. Collected by Knud Rasmussen, 1924. Wood. H: 23 cm. The National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic collection, inv. P32255. © The National Museum of Denmark. FIG. 19: Point Hope Inuit mask from fig. 18 in use. Black-and-white photographic print. The National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic collection, inv. 5-thuleb-0280a. © The National Museum of Denmark. FIG. 20 (right): Dance mask. Inuit, Point Hope, northern Alaska. Collected by Knud Rasmussen, 1924. Wood, pigment, glass bead, wolf snout. H: 25 cm. The National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic collection, inv. P32257. © The National Museum of Denmark.
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