kall.1 SOUTH SEA MASKS. 101 



one of the medicine dances of the Cape Flattery Indians is called Dnk- 

 wally is of course a mere accidental coincidence to which no importance 

 should be attributed. 



The hat-shaped mask of the Duk-Duk ceremony is surrounded with 

 tresses of bast which conceal the face and are colored red below ; the 

 body of it is conical, wittfalong stick extending vertically from its apex. 

 The lower part of this is painted red, with triangular figures on two 

 sides ; the upper part is more or less covered with bast, and has a bunch 

 of leaves at the point. These leaves and those of the dress are from 

 the Pandanus tree. A similar hat is placed on their idols, according to 

 Captain Briick,in New Britain, and recalls the curious conical hat with 

 a succession of small cylinders rising from its apex one above another 

 carved on some of the old T'linkit and Haida totem posts, but which 

 no one has reported as actually worn, if, indeed, they exist anywhere 

 except on the totem posts and in museums. A club or staff is held in 

 the hand iu both the Indian and Melanesian ceremonies. 



The following notes are from specimens actually examined : 



20651 (Plate IX, figs. 9-10).— This mask was obtained by H. S. Kirby 

 near Levuka, Friendly Islands. It is composed of a wood resembling 

 spruce, of which the unpainted surface forms the groundwork of the 

 coloration. The interior is slightly concave, with a small stick to be 

 held in the teeth. The front is rather flatfish. There are two rounded 

 ears over the forehead which, with the peculiarly formed mouth, indicate 

 that some sort of animal with a pointed muzzle and upright rounded 

 ears was intended to be symbolized. The chin, mouth, nose, lower edge 

 of eyebrows, and a band around the edge of the ears are colored red. 

 The other markings indicated by the figure are black. There is a white 

 band round the mouth which also served as an eyehole. Iu front of 

 the ears and around the upper edge of the mask are peg-holes, by pegs 

 in which hair, feathers, or fiber was probably once fastened. There are 

 traces of gray downy feathers which had been pegged on each side of 

 the chin. There had been an operculum or something of the sort, once, 

 to serve as pupil for each of the eyes of the mask which are not per- 

 forated. There is a knob with a hole in it carved at the top of the mask, 

 probably for the purpose of putting a cord into by which the article 

 might be suspended. In the record-book no history is attached to this 

 mask, other than the details mentioued. The figure is one-fifth the 

 linear size of the original. 



Plate VII, figs. 5-6. This is a wooden maskoid from Mortlock or 

 Young William's Island, Caroline group, South Seas. The original is 

 deposited in the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, 

 New York City. I am indebted to the director, Prof. Albert S. Bick- 

 more, for the privilege of figuring it. It strongly resembles some 

 Inuuit masks in general appearance. Its dimensions are 2S£ by 16£ 

 inches, and from front to back it is about 8 inches in greatest depth. 

 The disk is shield-shaped, and about 3 inches iu greatest thickness. 



