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finger mask en · NOUN

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1. An ornament worn looped over the fingers during ceremonial dancing by various indigenous people of Alaska.
   • She returned the finger mask to the Koniag dancer and held both hands out, palms up and eagle feather lying across them. 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 144:
   • Inuit women traditionally adorned themselves with finger masks during special ceremonies. My mother recently decided to try to make herself a finger mask. 2001, Sheridan Blau, Writers Craft: Red, →ISBN, page 454:
   • The smallest piece in the show, an Eskimo finger mask only a few centimeters high, was displayed next to a Dogon mask over five meters tall. 2007, Tribal Art - Volume 12, Issues 1-2, page 108:

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