Isaiah Pitka
Yupik Mask Do you know how the Yupik Mask was created? There were shamans in the past. Do you know shamans? Shamans are humans with powers living in 2 worlds. Shamans lived in the real world like the world we are living now. Shamans lived in the spiritual world also, its weird how they were part of the little human world, or they were able to talk to things that are growing. Shamans use to talk to trees, water, plants, anything that were in the spiritual world.
Shamans had many dreams from one to another and they would see what was in their dream and they would try create what the shamans have seen in their dream. I guess shamans saw masks in their dream and made masks, if the shamans knew how. Some shamans didn’t know how to carve, so they asked people that knew …show more content…
Masks are hard to make, because they did not find any supplies for the mask really easily long time ago. It was necessary for the people to catch big animals for parts of their tool. Their tools had mixed features to it such as ivory, metal, and some kind of waxed strings to make up their carving knifes. There was one tool that was used as an ax (ciklaq) it was one of the tools that were made out of different kinds of stuff to make it also, such like driftwood, roots of trees to use as rope, ivory, or metal if they had them. The people that used the tools were making masks. The people made parts for the masks called the universe, appendages and other stuff to add to it. The universe was usually around the mask to represent something, maybe living in the universe was it. Appendages were the carved animals, dance stuff, or some other stuff that were sticking out of the mask. Masks were patiently made by men with their hands and was hard to them. I didn’t know how the masks were painted until I heard that they use to walk miles to the hills to get colored rocks. Rocks would be cut into pieces and was mixed with water and that would turn into something that looks like
Yupik Mask Do you know how the Yupik Mask was created? There were shamans in the past. Do you know shamans? Shamans are humans with powers living in 2 worlds. Shamans lived in the real world like the world we are living now. Shamans lived in the spiritual world also, its weird how they were part of the little human world, or they were able to talk to things that are growing. Shamans use to talk to trees, water, plants, anything that were in the spiritual world.
Shamans had many dreams from one to another and they would see what was in their dream and they would try create what the shamans have seen in their dream. I guess shamans saw masks in their dream and made masks, if the shamans knew how. Some shamans didn’t know how to carve, so they asked people that knew …show more content…
Masks are hard to make, because they did not find any supplies for the mask really easily long time ago. It was necessary for the people to catch big animals for parts of their tool. Their tools had mixed features to it such as ivory, metal, and some kind of waxed strings to make up their carving knifes. There was one tool that was used as an ax (ciklaq) it was one of the tools that were made out of different kinds of stuff to make it also, such like driftwood, roots of trees to use as rope, ivory, or metal if they had them. The people that used the tools were making masks. The people made parts for the masks called the universe, appendages and other stuff to add to it. The universe was usually around the mask to represent something, maybe living in the universe was it. Appendages were the carved animals, dance stuff, or some other stuff that were sticking out of the mask. Masks were patiently made by men with their hands and was hard to them. I didn’t know how the masks were painted until I heard that they use to walk miles to the hills to get colored rocks. Rocks would be cut into pieces and was mixed with water and that would turn into something that looks like