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A good example of an art transfer which lies somewhere near the 

 border between the historic and the pre-European 



Northwest Coast • • j- jt -rt • n i • ,i i , , ,. 



Analogies invasion of the Facihc and is thns under the ban ot 



modernity is exemplified by an old Chilcat mask 



I'"iG. 18. Antique Chilcat mask with Chinese coins set in as eyes, 

 having bronze Chinese coins set in the e,ye sockets (fig. IS). This 

 specimen, which is described by Lieut. Bolles, was obtained from the 

 grave of an old "medicine man who had flourished more than two 



