NELSON] MASKS A407 
mouth and the other just above the top of the face. On the opposite 
side are two slightly curved pieces of wood of the same size as the legs 
and fastened to the mask in a similar manner. Each of these pieces 
has five small, cylindrical sticks an inch and a half long fastened along 
its lower border by sinew cords. Above these, on the sides of the 
tapering summit of the mask, are two quills with downy feathers at 
their tips, and the extreme summit has inserted in it a white swan 
feather. The face of this mask is very grotesque, one eye being round 
and nearly in the middle of the upper portion, to the left of which is a 
crescentic eye over two inches in length, the points of the crescent 
being toward the center of the face. Between these eyes the ridge of 
the nose is represented as having a curve similar to the outer border 
of the crescentic eye, and the nostrils are placed vertically one above 
the other. The mouth is crescent-shape and twisted around under the 
large round eye, and in its left corner is a round opening. The teeth 
are represented by squared, wooden pegs, and the mouth and eyes are 
pierced through the mask. The face is white, splashed about the mouth 
with some dark liquid, apparently blood. The two legs, as well as the 
opposite attachments, are red, as is also a narrow border and the lon g, 
pointed extension above the face. The cylindrical pendants are white, 
and the projection above the face is painted black, with large white 
spots. This mask represents the features of a tunghdk. 
Figure 1, plate cr, from south of the lower Yukon, is 12 by 6 inches, 
and represents a salmon. It is a flat, oval mask, having the head 
carved from a separate piece and fitted to the front end by a wooden 
peg. At the other end the tail is represented by two loose pieces on 
each side, fastened to the mask by pegs. -Beneath the throat of the 
salmon is the wooden effigy of a hair seal, represented as swimming 
crosswise to the course of the salmon, and fastened in position by a 
peg. On the back, in front of the tail, is a small model of a kaiak, 
held upright and crosswise to the length of the fish by a small splint; 
at one time the kaiak evidently bore the image of a man seated in the 
manhole. 
On each side of the salmon’s body are broad, thin, paddle-shape 
pieces of wood, fastened with pegs, to represent the pectoral fins. 
Just behind these, and near the tail, on each side, is the flat, wooden 
image of a smail salmon, the mouth, eyes, and gill openings of which 
are represented by incised lines. Just below the junction of the sal- 
mon’s neck with the body are incised lines which represent a large 
mouth with teeth; in the rear of this, on each side, is a large eye cut 
in relief. The entire back of the fish is occupied by a semihuman face, 
having aremarkable V-shape mouth, with the corners turned up and the 
teeth cut in relief; two oval nostrils and the eyes are pierced through 
the wood. The outline of the mouth and the gill openings of the sal- 
mon’s head, also of the mouth below the salmon’s neck and the outlines 
of the mouth and teeth in the face on the back, are red; and a band 
