398 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH, ANY. 18 
inch by wooden pegs, is a hoop of splints. The interior of the mask is 
roughly excavated, with a projecting lug on each side to prevent it 
from slipping sidewise on the face, while below another lug serves as 
a chin rest for the wearer. The genéral surface of the front of the mask 
is painted a dull blue, coarsely spotted with white; the eyes have white 
pupils and red irides; the beak of the bird is red, obliquely striped with 
white, and the sides of its mouth are painted red. The face of the inua 
is white, the interior of the nostrils red, each having feur black, ray-like 
lines drawn from its border about an inch upward on the side of the 
face. 
Plate xcyrb, from Cape Romanzof, south of the Yukon mouth, is a 
very large mask about 30 inches high by 10 inches wide. It is broadly 
oval below and tapers up into a long projection or neck above, which 
is formed of a separate piece fitted upon the body of the mask with 
three pegs, inserted from behind, attaching a projecting shoulder to 
the main part. On the extreme upper tip is a small figure of a human 
head. Surrounding the mask on all sides, and held at a short distance 
from it by lashings of willow root, is a hoop made of two thin, narrow 
splints. A series of split pegs around the border holds in position a 
narrow strip of reindeer skin, bearing long, upstanding hairs, which 
reaches up a little over half way on the neck or handle-like projection, 
and there its ends are inserted in the wood. 
The lower portion or body of the mask represents two faces. The 
lower, which is much the larger and oceupies at least two-thirds of the 
entire surface, is a grotesque semihuman face, having a huge, crescentic 
mouth with upturned corners. There are two large, round nostrils in a 
broad, spreading, rounded nose, and two crescentie eyes with upturned 
corners, over which hang the broad, heavy eyebrows, which project an 
inch and a half and sweep down with a crescentic curve over each eye, 
meeting at an angle on the base of the nose two inches above their 
lower border. The upper portion of the mask is occupied by the 
rounded face of some animal, apparently intended to represent a seal, 
which has a bulging brow and rounded, flat nose with nostrils deeply 
incised, and a wide, oval mouth, with four square teeth cut in relief on 
thelower jaw. The eyes arerounded and pierced, with a notch extend- 
ing downward at the inner corner. The chin of this face rests on the 
forehead of the huge lower one. The handle-like projection extends 
upward from the top of the last-described lead, and is over 12 inches 
high; it is flat behind, but rather oval on the sides, and has along its 
front a deep, rounded groove extending the entire length to the head 
at the top; along each side is a row of wooden pegs to represent teeth. 
The head capping this projection is about 24 inches high and 2 inches 
broad, representing ordinary human features; it is surrounded on the 
edges by a groove in which is a band of reindeer skin with the hair 
projecting like a halo. The large lower face is mainly white, the 
mouth is red; the line about the upper lip, representing a mustache, is 
