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also in light red. The lips and nose are quite prominent, the nostrils indicated 

 as usual by painted spots. 



Pig. 95. 



No. 22,3GO. 



In Fig. 95 is seen about the best result in this line. The face would be a 

 tolerable oval if the band did not cut off most of the forehead. The ears, lips, 

 and nose are in relief; the last quite prominently so. Between the eyes and 

 above the nose is the double pot-hook figure, apparently intended here to repre- 

 sent the brows. Rings stand for nostrils, and from them the horizontal lines 

 are drawn. On each cheek below the line there is a circle. The lips have the 

 dark lines shaded inside with red. In the middle of the mouth a red band or 

 oval was probably intended for the tongue. The teeth are confined to the lower 

 jaw. The usual red band is on the chin, and a red line shades the black one, 

 which gives outline to the jaw. 



Fig. 96. 



No. 299. 



The irregular outline of Fig. 96 looks more like that of a mask, of great 

 breadth, with scalloped jaws and chin. The point of the nose in relief is just 

 between or rather above the eyes. The pot-hook is on each side of the nose, 

 above and inverted. The horizontal band in red is here from the corners of the 

 mouth. Another is on the chin and shading the jaws. Red shades the dark 



