8th grade

Paper bag masks by eighth grade students. 
Creative Arts and Crafts for the Classroom by Elsie Dorsey, Supervisor of Art, Regina, Saskatchewan, School Aids and Text Book Publishing Co., Ltd., Regina/Toronto, 1955

Play thoughts

Creative Playthings 1971

Play Thoughts / Tri-Color Viewer / Big Looker / Perception Plaques / Frames / Mem / Connect / Sextett / Four Faces / Playsacks / Rainbow Box / Marble Pan / Parallelograms

16 page mini-catalogue. Princeton New Jersey.

cardboard masks

Mark Grotjahn: Cardboard Masks, Wood Kusaka Studios, Los Angeles, 2012

thanks P+W

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Mes Cadeaux- Surprises by François Cherrier, Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1976

The Art of the Woodland Indians by Shirley Glubok, MacMillan Publishing, NY, 1976

spirits and spirit helpers

Harpoon head, Lazaroosee Akspaliak, 1975, Arctic Bay & Harpoon Head-figure, Dorset Culture, Igloolik area / Shaman's teeth, Dorset culture, Igloolik area, ivory / Mask, pre-1913, Coastal Ungava, sealskin and sinew / Shaman's mask, pre-1925, East Greenland, sealskin, fur, twine, and sinew / Harpoon head, artist unknown, 1963, Cape Dorset & Flying Bear, artist unknown, Eskimo Point / Man, Dorset culture, Igloolik area, ivory

from The Coming and Going of the Shaman: Eskimo Shamanism and Art by Jean Blodgett, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, 1978 (cover here at R4TH (I finally found it))

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Masks, Face Coverings and Headgear by Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973 (all masks pictured above by Norman Laliberté except third from top by Susan Benton ("narrative presentation with mask depicting the story of Sarah and Hagar"), bottom is Laliberté's homage to Saul Steinberg)

previously here and here

related

elephant and hood

Elephant Mask and Hood Mask by Sas Colby

more from Masks, Face Coverings and Headgear by Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973

Fredun Shapur: Four Faces

Masks from the Four Faces portfolio designed by Fredien Shapur [sic] and produced by Creative Playthings, Princeton, NJ.
from Masks, Face Coverings and Headgear by Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973 (This book arrived in the mail today. It's amazing and deserves a whole week of posts, but I thought I'd start with this. Has anyone seen these before?! Thanks to P+W!)

Fredun Shapur previously

Art Education 15

from Emphasis: Art - A Qualitative Program for the Elementary School by Frank Wachowiak & Theodore Ramsay, International Textbook Company, Scranton, 1965

brown bag

125 Craft Ideas Kids Can Make From Throwaways, Highlights for Children, Columbus, OH, 1981