MURDOCH.] 



MASKS. 



369 



FIG. :t*i9. Rude mask of wood. 



ured is roughly whittled out of the bottom of an old meat tray. It has 

 the hair, eyebrows, and a single stripe of tattooing on the chin marked 

 with black lead. This came from IJtkiavwffi (No. 89811 [1037]). 



Another commercial&quot; mask (No. 

 8!&amp;gt;813) [1074] from Ftkiavwm) is 

 very elaborate, but roughly and care 

 lessly made. It is almost flat, with 

 the features hardly raised in relief. 

 In each corner of the mouth is in 

 serted a slender ivory tusk about 1 

 inch long, and besides the eyebrows, 

 moustache, and imperial, there is a 

 broad &quot;whaleman s mark&quot; running 

 obliquely across the right cheek from 

 the bridge of the nose. Six long 

 feathers are stuck in the edge of the 

 forehead. Curiously enough these 

 are the feathers of the South Ameri 

 can ostrich, and came from the feather 

 duster in use at our station. 



Fig. 370 (No. 5G496 [258] from Utkiavwln) represents, rather rudely, 

 a wolf s face and ears, and is the only animal mask we obtained or saw. 

 It is of cotton wood, old and weathered, and is 4-7 inches long and C-5 

 wide. It is painted on the edge with red ocher and has a streak 



of the same color 



down the ridge of the 



nose. The string is 



of whalebone and uu- 



braided sinew pieced 



together. 



Fig. 371 (Xo. 89815 



[1050] from ITtkiav- 



wifi) is a mask that 



seems almost too 



small to have been 



worn, being only 0-1 



inches long and 4-7 



wide. It is very old, 



made of black enedcot- 

 tonwood, and is the rudest representation of the human face which 

 we saw. It is simply an oval disk, concavo-convex, with holes cut for 

 the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. The rough cutting about the chin ap 

 pears to have been done with a stone tool, and the mouth seems to be, 

 smeared with blood. The string passed through the holes in the fore 

 head to hang it up by is much newer than the mask, being braided 

 from cotton twine and fastened to a common galvanized boat nail. 

 9 ETH 24 



Kid. 370. Wolf mask of woixl. 



Fin. 371. Very ancient 

 sin fill mask. 



