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The masks are painted along conventional lines; the favorite 

 colors for the inua masks are red (Karekteoak), 1 black (Auktoak), 

 green (Cungokyoak), white (Katektoak), and blue (Taukrek- 

 toak), in the order named. These colors 2 may hold a sacred 

 or symbolic significance. The inua masks are decorated with 

 some regard to the natural colors of the human face, but in the 

 masks of the tunghat the imagination of the artist runs riot. 

 The same is true of the comic masks, which are rendered as 

 grotesque and horrible as possible. A mask with distorted 

 features, a pale green complexion, surrounded by a bristling mass 

 of hair, amuses them greatly. The Eskimo also caricature their 

 neighbors, the Dene, in this same manner, representing them by 

 masks with very large noses and sullen features. 



1 These are the northern names. In the southern or Yukon dialect black is Tunguli; white 

 Katughuli; red, Kauigiili; green, Tcununguli. 



The endings and pronunciation of similar Eskimo words are somewhat different in Arctic 

 Alaska and on the Yukon River; sufficiently so as to produce two distinct dialects. For this 

 reason I have given the forms from both sections. 



2 Red is obtained from red ochre; white from white clay; black from soot or ashes; green 

 from oxide of copper. 



