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ful, and realistically painted carving, was four and one-half inches high, 

 by three inches in width of shoulders ; it was much under natural size of 

 the bird it represented, but it was surprisingly life-like, what though so 

 beautifully and conventionally idealized as a figure of the head and front 

 of the pelican. Near it were thin slats, admirably cut and painted to 

 represent the wings of the bird ; and they were pierced, as were the incut 

 shoulders of the figurehead itself, for attachment thereto. The mask (fig. 

 4) found near this figurehead and the other painted carvings mentioned, 

 was nine and one-eighth inches high, and five and one-quarter inches 

 broad. It was vinquestionably designed to represent the human, or man- 

 god counterpart of this bird ; for not only, was the chin protruded and 

 the under lip pouted to symbolize the pouch of the pelican, but also, the 

 rear and tail of the body (painted in white on the chm), the trailing legs 

 (in gray-blue and 'white lines, descending from the nostrils around the 

 corners of the mouth), the wings and shoulders, (in dappled white over 

 the cheeks), and the huge bald head (in white on the forehead of the 

 mask), were all most distinctly suggested. Moreover, on the upper 

 edge of the mask (at the terminal point of the bird head painted on the 

 forehead), were perforations, indicating that either an actual beak, or 

 an appendage representative thereof, had been attached. With this in 

 mind, if the mask be reversed and a comparison of the design on it be 

 made with the figurehead, or with the imagined form of a flying peli- 

 can seen from above, the almost ludicrous resemblance of the design to 

 its supposed original will readily enough be seen. 



