126 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



1C080). It is also in fashion of a mask and was probably lashed to some 

 part of a head-dress. The figure is reproduced here for comparison 

 (Plate XX 111, figs. 57-58). 



There is a faint trace of red ochre on the .median keel of this carving and 

 on the upper back edges, and there are numerous holes along the outer 

 edges where feathers had once been pegged in. There is nothing to in- 

 dicate how it was to be held on the head. The original is 26 inches in 

 length and 9£ in breadth. 



20263 ( Plate X XIII, tigs. 51-53). — Dancing mask ; record the same as 

 that of the preceding. The figure shows the shape. There is a band of 

 red ochre over and under the lips and on the border of the lower bevel. 

 On the upper bevel is a half moon and some irregular blotches, now quite 

 faint, but originally intended to indicate seals or fishes. There was 

 originally a lattice behind with three cross-sticks and two uprights to hold 

 it on, besides a mouth-bar of wood, which, however, showed no tooth- 

 marks. There was no indentation to accommodate the neck. There had 

 been one feather pegged to the upper margin over the nose. There was 

 no indication whatever of a left eye in this one, and it does not seem to 

 have been much used. 



20267. — Dancing mask from Prince William Sound; history similar 

 to the preceding numbers ; rude and heavy. This mask is well rep- 

 resented by the figure ; it is somewhat de- 

 cayed from exposure and must be very old. 

 There is a shallow groove with a red blotch 

 under it for a left eye. There are traces of 

 red ochre around the mouth and on the upper 

 border. The right eye is not colored. There 

 was a feather pegged in at the top on each 

 side. This is known by the decayed remains 

 of the quill around the peg. Head lattice 

 gone, but places where two cross-sticks were 

 lashed still visible. 



20269 (Plate XXV, figs. 63-64).— Dancing 

 ao267# mask ; same record as the preceding. Upper 



border indented by a rounded notch, as seen in the figure. Originally 

 there was one feather in each horn or process at the sides of the 

 notch. In the furbishing-up already alluded to a new feather had 

 been stuck into one of the old pegholes. The forehead is perforated. 

 The nostrils, as in all this series, serve as peepholes. Above them 

 on the back of the mask and below the forehead perforation the red 

 ochre from the wearer's forehead had been rubbed off on the wood. 

 Such incidents give a human interest to these relics which otherwise 

 thej seem almostto lack, like fossils. The nose was greenish, and a stripe 

 of the same runs up to the point where the feather was pegged in, oue 

 on each side. There is some red around the mouth, radiating streaks 

 about the forehead hole (sun ?) ; the moon on forehead is red and also 



