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An exciting piece with lots of features. Made in September of 1999, it is a unique variation ("B") on the fifth ("V") dancer element in the Wallace's 1997 masterpiece, the Yu'pik Dancer Belt. This was to be the last belt the Wallaces created.
This figure is a fan dancer, and she wears mask of Amikuk ("a spirit that lives in the ground"). Her fans actually swivel, her right arm moves forward on a hinge, and the mask is completely removable to become a stand-alone pendant. 
This lovely piece was featured in the book "Arctic Transformations; the Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace" by Lois Sherr Dubin and can be found on its own page (Page 178).