Alaskan Masks

Alaskan Native masks are not just an art form but something much more they were used for many thing including burials, dancing, grave stones, dance festivals, and various other things. When they were done using the masks for the dance festivals many of the Natives would throw out the masks because many of them were only used once. When someone in the village would die they would make a mask for that person and bury them with it. Heres a link with what some of the masks looked like. http://www.native-languages.org/masks.htm