Dorset mask
Canadian Museum of History, PfFm-1:1773, IMG2009-0063-0149-Dm
Dating from AD 500–1000, this life-sized wooden mask found in Nunavut was probably worn during ritual activities by a Dorset culture shaman. Dorset peoples were the descendants of Siberians who migrated into the Canadian Arctic and Greenland more than 4,500 years ago.