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the right eye aud in geueral the edges of the mask. The back- has no 

 neck indentation, but a heavy lattice bar, to which apparently were once 

 attached three or five lattice sticks. 



20268. (Plate XXIV, figs. 60-02).— Dancing mask; material and his- 

 tory as in the preceding specimens from Prince William Sound. The fig- 

 ure gives a sufficient idea of its form. Remains of red ochre are percep- 

 tible in a band around the mouth aud around the edge of the mask ; the 

 rigid eye is red, also concentric circle and radii around the hole in the 

 forehead (to represent the sun ?) and a red half moon above it. Red 

 paint from the wearer's face also visible in the interior of the mask 

 where the two had come in contact. A V-shaped groove extends from 

 the root of the nose upward to the insertion of two feathers, one on 

 each horn of the mask. On each side there were originally six feathers, 

 pegged in; peepholes at the nostrils where a fragment of sinew thread 

 indicates that a nose ornament was hung, and, iuside, a small bar of 

 wood lashed with strong sinew by the middle and by a cord about an 

 inch long to the nasal septum. This was held in the teeth and took 

 the place of the ordinary arched mouth-bar, fastened at both ends. 

 The lower margin of the mask is indented or excavated in the middle, 

 the better to receive the front of the neck. The lattice mostly gone. 



To show the way in which these masks were usually held on, a res- 

 toration of the back of this or a similar mask has been figured. The 

 notch for the neck, the J.-shaped mouth-bar, and the lattice are shown 

 in a way the imperfect and decayed condition of the originals would 

 not admit of. 



A strong bar was lashed horizontally near the top of the mask by 

 ds ends. A variable number of uprights were rigidly lashed to this 

 bar and their free ends to a loose bar. The torsion exerted on the 

 upper horizontal bar, when the head was inserted between the lattice 

 and the mask, held the latter like a spring upon the head, aud more 

 steadiness was added by the mouth-bar being held between the teeth. 

 There were numerous small variations on this plan, but the essential 

 principle was in nearly all cases the same. 



20264. (Plate XXV, fig. 65).— Dancing mask from Prince William 

 Sound; record as above. This specimen is imperfect. There are rem- 

 nants of blackish coloration on the nose, running up to a point on the 

 forehead. On the upper bevel of the mask red blotches rudely indicate 

 two fish on each side, and a seal in the middle with a narrow crescent 

 below them. From the projecting ball of each eye a seal is represented 

 as hanging, facing the nose ; a seal is represented on the side of the fore- 

 head and two on the cheeks looking outward ; on the right side there 

 are three, and on the left four red circles above the upper lip, which, 

 as well as the lower slope of the eyebrows, is reddened. The left eye 

 was originally reddened. A strip of whalebone and a feather were 

 stuck into the upper lip on each side. A bit of fur had been bound 

 around the upper edges. The mouth-bar was attached to the nasal 



