Anchorage Museum.

• Author: Gallion, Mari
• Position: INSIDE ALASKA BUSINESS

The Anchorage Museum has expanded its collection through major purchases and donations. "Recent Acquisitions," on view through Feb. 10 at the Anchorage Museum, showcases more than 140 new museum holdings, including paintings, ethnographic objects, photographs, sculptures and historical objects.

Rare objects include unique skin masks made by the Nunamiut people of Anaktuvuk Pass using a technique they invented: casting wet caribou skins on wooden molds and staining them with raw caribou liver. The masks depict human faces trimmed with the ears, noses and fur of wolf, fox, caribou and lynx.

Exhibition highlights also include: Jones-Breu Collection, the items teacher Etta Jones took in her suitcase...