NELSON] MASKS 401 
over each nostril are black. The remainder of the face is white; the 
hands are red, as are also the two seal-heads; the fish-heads are green. 
This mask represents the face of a tunghdk. 
A mask bearing original number 1445, from the country south of the 
’ Yukon mouth, represents a human figure with outstretched arms and 
legs, having a human face in relief on the front of the body. The head, 
arms, and legs of this figure are attached to the central part of the 
mask with wooden pins. A hoop fastened to the inside of the arms near 
the elbows and to the legs at the knees holds the limbs in their out- 
stretched position. On each side of the face on the front of the body 
is a thumbless hand cut from a flattened piece of wood. These are 
attached to the mask with flexible pegs of wood. This mask, from the 
lower part of the body to the top of head, is 14 inches high and nearly 
7 inches broad on the kody. Its posterior surface is roughly concave, 
with a projecting ledge of wood near the lower border of excava- 
tion, to enable the wearer to seize it with his teeth for the purpose of 
holding the mask more firmly in position. Around the bedy of the 
mask are inserted downy, white swan’s feathers; the outstretched 
hands of the figure are thumbless, as are the hands on nearly all the 
masks collected in that region. The holes in the palms, which are 
usually made large and conspicuous, are indicated in this case by small, 
round punctures about one-tenth of an inch in diameter. The main 
color of the front of the mask, including the arms, legs, and the hoop, 
is white. The ears on the head of the figure are represented by small, 
flat wooden pegs painted red; the mouth is also red. The eyebrows, 
excavations for the eyes, mustache, and beard are indicated in black 
paint, the eyebrows and mustache being represented by dots. The 
arms, between the shoulders and elbows, are surrounded by a black 
band with a white spot in the middle, and the forearms and the hands 
to the fingers are red; the ends of the fingers are not painted. 
The second pair of hands, mentioned as being on either side of the 
face in front of the body, are painted like the arms. There is a black 
band around the thigh with a white spot in the center, and the lower 
legs and the feet are red, with a white spot on the inside of the calf, 
which corresponds to a similar spot on the inside of each wrist. The 
border around the face carved on the front of the body is red, with white 
dots at regular intervals about the circle. The face itself is white, with 
eyebrows, snow-goggles, nostrils, a line over each nostril, mustache, 
and beard represented in biack; the lips are painted red. The eyes and 
the mouth are pierced through. The exact significance of this mask 
was not learned, but the face on the front of the body undoubtedly 
represents the supposed features of the inaa of the being represented 
by the main figure. 
A mask from the lower Kuskokwim (number 64234), 10 by 64 inches, 
is oval and deeply excavated, with a convex front imitating a hair seal 
pierced by four almond-shape openings representing eyes and nostrils. 
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