128 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



septum-by a cord around the middle. The lashings were of sinew, and 

 there arc many peg-holes at tiie sides, but the ornaments they fastened 

 Ions' since disappeared. 



20266 (Plate XXIV, fig. 59). — Dancing mask from Prince William 

 Sound : record and general appearance much liketke last, as will be seen 

 by the figure. There are traces of red ochre over the lip, on the right 

 eye, on the eyebrow, and some nearly effaced figures on the forehead. 

 A number of feathers had been pegged to the side margins. The left 

 eye had not been colored. The peep-holes were through the nostrils, 

 the lattice entirely gone. 



From the same locality as these masks a dried body was sent, which 

 still showed labret holes in its withered cheeks and a perineal incision, 

 by which the viscera had been extracted in order to dry the remains. 

 No record of particulars accompanied the- specimens other than that 

 above referred to. 



INNUIT MASKETTE FROM KADIAK ISLAND.l 



1 6268. (Plate XXVI, fig. 67.)— Maskette of the Kaniagmut Iunuit, ob- 

 tained at Saint Paul, Kadiak Island, Alaska, by William H. Dall. The 

 size of the disk is 8 by 5 inches. It is imperforate. The disk is rather 

 heavy and thick, but carefully carved after one of the ancient model 

 by one, or under the direction of one, of the old men of the village. It is 

 painted white, with lines and tracery on it of red, blue, and black. The 

 disk is surrounded by a narrow, flat hoop, through which are passed the 

 quills of three large dark feathers on each side. A -little in advance of 



1 The customs of these savages (Inuuit of Kadiak) are nearly allied to those of the 

 Oonalashkans. They have the same kind of instruments, darts, and boats, or baidars, 

 but much worse made ; nor are they so active upon the water. Their dances are proper 

 tournaments, with a knife or lance in the right hand and a rattle in the left; the rattle 

 is made of a number of thin hoops, one in the other, covered with white feathers, and 

 having the red bills of the sea-parrot suspended on very short threads; which, being 

 shaken, strike together, and make a very considerable noise ; their music is the tam- 

 bourine, and their songs are warlike. They frequently are much hurt, but never lose 

 their temper in consequence of it. In these dances they use masks, or paint their 

 faces very fantastically. (Sauer, in Billings' Voyage in 1792, on Kadiak Inuuit, p. 

 176.) 



November they speud in visiting each other, feasting in the manuer of the Oona- 

 lashkans. and dancing with masks and paiuted faces. (Sauer, 1. c, p. 178.) 



They still observe their annual dance iu masks, and with painted faces ; the masks 

 are called kugali, and I discovered that some particular ornaments of their dress used 

 upon this occasion were regarded as charms, having power to prevent any fatal acci- 

 dents, either in the chase or iu their wars ; but in the latter they now never engage. 

 (Sauer, 1. c, p. 272.) 



In 1305 Langsdorff (vol. ii, p. 49) observed of the Kadiak natives that " the masks 

 which earlier travelers observed these people to wear at their festivals seem now 

 entirely laid aside. 



