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fin, the pupil, eyebrows, the outlines of tracery on fins and tail, all black. 

 Teeth, nostrils, eyeballs and basis of tracery on fins and tail, white. 

 Area around the eyes and nostrils and the chin blue. On the stout 

 hide, composing the fins and tail, something like white paper seems to 

 have been pasted, upon which the black tracery is painted. The figure 

 is on a linear scale of one-fifth the size of the origiual. 



30210 (Plate XIV, fig. 22.).— Dancing mask from Xutka, Vancouver 

 Island, made of pine wood, collected for the National Museum by J. G. 

 Swan. The lips, the margin of the mask, and the band on the left 

 cheek are red : eyebrows, tracery around the eyes and narrow band on 

 right cheek, black. The remainder is the natural color of the wood. 

 The hair is made of the cambium layer of bark of some tree washed 

 free of sap, dried and beaten into threads. The cords by which it was 

 fastened are gone ; some remnants still remain around the margin of 

 the mask. A sort of wooden lattice is pegged behind the mouth, inside 

 the cross-pieces seen through the opening from in front, and marked by 

 a transverse black line to imitate teeth. There is aloop within to be held 

 in the teeth. The resemblance between this and the South Sea mask 

 figured on Plate IX is noticeable. The figure is on a linear scale of one- 

 eighth. 



30211 (Plate XV, figs. 25-27).— Dancing mask with movable wings 

 from Xutka, Vancouver Island, collected for the National Museum by J. 

 G. Swan in 1S7G. The material is the same as in 30210, with the addi- 

 tion of a row of upright feathers in the top of the wings and face. The 

 hair is of bark like the latter, but has the down of some feathers stripped 

 from the shaft and mixed with it. The upright feathers over the face 

 are in front of the Lair, and are lashed to. a bent stick behind the upper 

 margin of the face. The hinder side of the wing has an eye-like spot 

 painted upon it. The front has a rude human figure in black and red : 

 a red line below the chin and around the cheeks ; eyebrows and irides 

 black, eyeballs white. The remainder of the surface is of the natural 

 color of the wood. The peepholes are through the nostrils. The wings 

 are lashed firmly in three places to an axis, which plays in a wooden 

 spool at top and bottom. These spools were firmly fastened to the 

 mask by lashings not shown in the figure to avoid confusion. The dia- 

 gram shows the framework by which the mask was held on the head, 

 and the ingenious mechanism for flapping the wings. A lepresents the 

 upper part of the left wing near whose upper edge a cord, B. is pegged to 

 the outside, passing over the upper margin of the mask, and down 

 through a hole in the medial bar of the frame; thence backward through 

 a hole in the rounded end of a transversed bar of the frame, and then 



1 downward to the hand of the wearer. The wings were hung so that 

 they naturally tended to swing backward ; a pull on the cord would send 

 them forward, and they would recoil of their own weight. When worn, 

 a large mass of the same sort of stuff as the hair was put into the upper 



