Ideas from School Arts Jan 1986

1. Elementary–Have students create masks that incorporate animal imagery using their own pets or a favorite animal as the subject.
	Use: tagboard watercolors markers string velcro "spots" to close the folded parts

2. Show other art forms of the North Pacific and Richard Hunt.
- What styles or motifs carry over into the other art forms?
- How does each art form differ from the others?
- Could also study and compare mask forms and artifacts from other cultures.

3. Compare the Indians' fascination with sky creatures to contemporary interests in space travel and science fiction. What roles do masks play in these adventures?

Key Concepts re: Transformation Masks
Ideas from School Arts Jan 1986

• The development of a style requires the perfection—over along period of time—of both visual forms and technique.
• Human beings create images as a way of explaining, knowing and understanding the world in which they live. Bodies of beliefs and values are embedded in these images.
• A culturally indigenous mask does not exist in isolation, but as one of many which might be substituted for it, add to its meaning or accompany its purpose.
• A mask is not primarily what it represents, but what it transforms. It transforms the wearer by first denying who and what the wearer is; then it defines who and how powerful the wearer has become.