Cushing.l *— '^ 'Not. 6. 



Plate XXXIII. 



Of the many animal figureheads, and actually, as well as decoratively, 

 associated human masks discovered in the Court of the Pile Dwellers, 

 those of the wolf and wolf-man, and of the pelican and pelican-man 

 only, Avere chosen for illustration here, not because they were the most 

 striking or perfect examples of the kind recovered, but because they 

 illustrate more completely than others, the singular relations and mean- 

 ings of these peculiar objects of art — as I have endeavored to explain them 

 in the text, on pp. 388 to 394, inclusive. 



Fig. 1. Represents very perfectly, the wolf figurehead, as it appears 

 w^hen the parts are put together as the relations of the perforations and 

 cord fragments therein indicate they were originally joined. When this 

 figvirehead was found, — by Gause and myself, in section 30, Plate XXXI 

 — the ear-pieces were back to back, and were thrust through the hollow 

 head-piece and open mouth ; and the conventional, scroll-like shoulder 

 and leg-pieces, were laid together in like manner, and were neatly bound, 

 with strips of palmetto, or flag-leaf — still green in color — to the side of the 

 head. This head-piece was six and one-half inches in length ; the spread 

 of the jaws, five and seven-eighth inches; the ear-pieces, six inches in 

 length, and the leg and shoulder-pieces, four and six-eighths inches long. 

 Happih^ Mr. Sawyer was able to make an excellent water-color sketch of 

 the specimen before it was disturbed, and another after it was put to- 

 gether and was still bright with the moisture of its centuries of im- 

 mersion and preservation. 



Fig. 3. Represents the human featured mask associated with this wolf 

 figure-head. It is less perfectly shown in the sketch, since the details of 

 its paint decoration do not, in mere black and white, show as plainlj^ as 

 could be desired, and hence the really unmistakable correspondence be- 

 tween these color-designs (in black, brown, gray-blue and white), 

 and the general aspect and face-markings of the animal-head, is not so 

 pronounced as in the original. But the black ear-marks over the eyes, the 

 black, indented stripe under and around the nostrils, the scroll like out- 

 lines of the shoulder-pieces (in white lines over all the other markings 

 in the middle of the face), and the zigzag lines representative of the 

 gnashing teeth or tusked jaws of the wolf (across the cheeks toward the 

 mouth of the mask), will at once, however, be recognized. 



This mask was nine inches in length, by six inches in width, and was 

 found in the same section, (30), not only with the wolf figurehead, but 

 also near other masks and figureheads. 



Fig. 3. Represents, on a-greatly reduced scale, the pelican figurehead, — 

 found by Gause and Hudson, in section 40. This extraordinarily grace- 



