ALASKA YARD SALE: STRANGE MASK.

[artzstuff1]

My mother bought this at a yard sale in kenai ak. a few years ago, it has caribou fur around the face !!!!

just wondering if anyone has ever seen or heard of such an item? or maybe a value of such an item??

seems to be pretty old,, any help would be cool!!

thanks

arthur

[Tank69]

beautiful find , most where hand made are are hand carved wood with real fur , that one there is very sweet .they are just hand carved masks .

[allen]

really unique mask !!!

[EdleBrock]

There's a similar e-bay item from July...

http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=370224270505

Just incase it's taken down:

Lonnie Hartwell Temple, 76, of Kenai, Alaska, died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2001, at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska.

He was born Feb. 26, 1925, in England, Ark., son of Lonnie W. and Irene Temple. He lived in Cape Girardeau from 1930-42, attended Southeast Missouri State University and the University of Missouri.

Temple moved to the Alaska Territory in 1948. He worked for Alaska Railroad, moving to Anchorage in 1950 and opening Alaska's first taxidermy shop. He began commercial fishing in 1957 and lived in Anchorage until retiring in 1990 and moving to Kenai.

He served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the South Pacific during World War II.