410 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
outward horizontally and attached to the side of the mask by wooden 
pegs so as to be continuous with the part on the mask. These wolves 
are represented as walking toward the center, their heads close to- 
gether and tails outstretched in opposite directions. Surrounding the 
masks at a short distance is a small wooden hoop, in which is inserted 
three feathers tipped with downy plumes, one on each side and one 
on top. The forehead, a ring around each eye, a line over the nostrils, 
the mustache, and the chin, with the entire figure of the wolf on the 
left side, are black, spotted sparsely with white. The other wolf is 
white, with the end of its tail and feet black, as are its eyes and 
nostrils. The inside of the wolves’ mouths, the mouth of the mask, 
including the inside of the mandibles and the figure of the walrus, ex- 
cepting the tusks, are red. The signification of this mask is unknown, 
but I believe that the black and white wolves bear a symbolic reference 
to day and night. 
Figure 5, plate ci, from lower Kuskokwim river, is 73 by 44 
inches. It is a rudely carved, rather flattened maskette, thin on one 
side and thicker on the other, with a nearly straight outline along 
one side and rounded on the other three sides. Facing the straight 
side of the mask the surface is excavated, leaving a raised edge or rim 
near the other border, and in the depression thus formed is a rounded, 
saucer-like excavation about two inches in diameter in which are pierced 
two holes tor eyes and acrescentic mouth. Surrounding the borders of 
this maskette are two hoops of splint held in position by willow bark 
lashings. The space occupied by the small face is painted a slaty bluish 
color, and a band of the same color is drawn along the ridge toward the 
outer border on the main portion of the maskette; the remainder is 
white. This maskette represents a half moon and is connected with 
religious ceremonials held during the winter in that region, but I failed 
to learn its exact significance. 
Figure 4, plate ci, from lower Kuskokwim river, is 53 by 34 
inches. Itis a small, flattened, rudely shaped maskette, representing a 
grotesque semihuman countenance with two rounded eyes and an oval 
mouth piercing the front. The nostrils are indicated by two squared 
depressions. In the mouth three wooden pegs, two above and one 
below, indicate teeth. The borders of this object are set with small, 
white feathers and a rawhide cord is attached to its upper edge for 
the purpose of sustaining it. It is somewhat pear-shape above, con- 
tracting on the sides at a point between the nostrils and the mouth 
and then expanding to form the rounded chin. Its significance is not 
known. 
Figure 6, plate crt, is amaskette from the lower Kuskokwim, measur- 
ing 5by 12inches. Itis arudely quadrangular, flattened piece of wood, 
having roughly oval eyes and a crescentic mouth, pierced through. 
Upon each side of the face are inserted two paddle-shape, slightly curved 
sticks, expanded toward the ends. From the base of the nose a groove 
