CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Prefatory remarks '3 



The evolution of masks " 4 



Labretifery ^ 



Classification of masks O.J 



Of the practice of preserving the whole or part of the human head 94 



On the distribution of masks 98 



Masks of the South Seas 98 



Masks of Peru 103 



Masks of Central America and Mexico 104 



Masks of New Mexico and Arizona 105 



Masks of Northwest American Indians 106 



Customs at Cape Flattery, according to Swan 107 



Tlinkit and Haida masks HI 



Masks of the Iunuit, north to the Arctic Ocean 121 



Inuuit of Prince William Sound 124 



Innuit of Kadiak Island 128 



Innuit of Kuskok-win River 1*9 



Finger masks - 131 



Innuit of Norton Sound and the Yukon Delta 132 



Innuit of Bering Strait l 3ri 



Innuit of Point Barrow, Arctic Ocean 136 



Masks of the Uniinguu or Aleuts 137 



Masks of the Iroquois (supplemental) 144 



Summary and speculations 146 



Plates and explanations I 53 



