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(p. 96)? Maskoids of stone, terra cotta, jasper, 1 and jadeite from this 

 region are to be found in most anthropological museums and are figured 

 in all works on Mexican antiquities. Satirical maskoids in terra cotta 

 are common. Some of the gold articles found in the graves at Chiriqui 

 in Central America were of a maskoid character, though most of them 

 were rude figures. 



Some recent illustrations of antique Mexican paintings 2 show con- 

 ventionalized figures wearing exactly the maskette head-dresses figured 

 in this article from the Moqui villages. 



After the death and shrouding of their " king " a painted mask set 

 with jewels was put over his face. 3 The use of the Peruvian maskoids 

 and the Innuit and Aleutian death-masks for the same purpose are to 

 be uoted in this connection. 



MASKS OF NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 



In the National Museum there are quite a number of maskettes and 

 head-dresses from New Mexico and Arizona, one of which, together 

 with a doll showing the method of wearing them, is figured in this paper. 



221)30 (Plate XII, fig. 15).— A doll obtained at the Moqui villages in 

 Arizona, by Maj. J. W. Powell, and presented to the National Museum. 

 It is figured to show the method of wearing the maskette headdress 

 about to be referred to, and also as illustrating the progress in conven- 

 tionalizing the forms of which the head-dress is composed. Originally 

 intended for human figures the forms became such as are figured on the 

 head-dress (22942), and by a further progress the bare block patterns 

 which we see on the head of this doll. 



The colors are varied and their distribution only to be made intelligi- 

 ble by a colored figure. The doll's painted dress is white with red 

 stripes. One stocking is green the other is partly yellow, both have 

 black borders ; the arms and eyes are black, the head-dress is green, 

 red, black, and yellow, while the face is ornamented with blue, red, 

 yellow, green, and white. The figure is one-eighth the length of the 

 original. 



22942 (Plate XII, figs. 16-17).— Moqui maskette head-dress collected 

 by Maj. J. W. Powell at the Moqui villages in Arizona for the United 

 States National Museum. The right-hand figure shows the front of the 

 head dress, the left-hand one the back of it. The height of the original 

 is seventeen times that of the figure. No less than thirteen figures are 

 indicated on the arch of the head-dress, the principal one in the center 

 with two supporters, then an intermediary, and finally four others at 



'Ant. Mex., Du Pais, Ire expe'd., pi. xv., figs. 1C, 16a. 

 2 Anales de Museo Naeionale, vol. iii. 

 3 Purclias, eel. 1626, book viii, ch. ix, page 872. 



