130 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



die, belong- to it : these were originally pegged to the forehead forming 

 a sort of arch over it. they are whitened. Relief of the disk black ; the 

 checks and around the eves, white. Two large wooden appendages 

 about 8 inches long, somewhat saber-shaped, are loosely fastened one 

 mi each side just outside the cheek. One eye circular with a dash of 

 blue around it : the other, semi-lunar. Mouth wide, arched upward, 

 center reamed out circularly, with an appendage like a beak about 2 

 inches long, one part above aud one below this central perforation. 



No. (54257. — Innuit dancing mask from the Kuskokwim River, col- 

 lected by E. W. Nelson. Length, about 20 iuches. Shape, oval. Disk 

 somewhat concavely arched. At the lower eud something rudely re- 

 sembling a seal's head is attached, with two round projecting pegs, prob- 

 ably representing eyes. The disk as a whole is probably intended to 

 represent a seal, or other auiinal, conventionalized. This part of the 

 mask is blackened. The whole area of the back, with the exception of 

 a margin about 1 J inches wide, is excavated and whiteued. There are 

 here represented, in the center, two eyes incliued downward at the in- 

 ner corners, two oval nostrils, and a semi-lunar mouth, concave down, 

 ward, with blackened wooden pegs for teeth. The eyebrows and a line 

 over the nose, and another below the lower lip, are blackened. A rude 

 face is represented in the upper portion by black lines. In the outer 

 portion of the margin, are two large round holes nearly equi-distant from 

 the ends aud from each other. The interior of I hese holes is colored red. 

 Owls' feathers are pegged into the outer margin at about four places on 

 each side, and are supported by two hoops which are lashed to each 

 other, to the lower pair of round holes in the margin, and also to a squar- 

 ish hole at the upper end. 



3STo. 30775. — Maskette found ou the ice floatiug in the sea off Una- 

 lashka Island, having probably drifted from the Yukon River, or Kus- 

 kokwim River, on the ice. Disk elongated, about 22 iuches long and 

 7 inches wide, broad and rounded at the lower eud, tapering and trun- 

 cated at the upper end. In the center a circular space is excavated, 

 about 8 inches in diameter, in which is a face carved in relief, with 

 perforated G shaped irides, the pupils of which are represented by cir- 

 cular bits of wood, supported by bits of wood not cut out. The mouth 

 is semi-lunar, arched upward, with six teeth carved iu the wood above 

 and below. There are two pegs in the chiu aud two in each cheek. 

 The hair was formerly blackened. The whole mask has the appeaiance 

 of having been washed in a river or on the sea-shore, so that the color- 

 ation is mostly gone. Below the carved face (one on each side) are two 

 round disks of tinned iron, about 1^ inches in diameter, let iuto the 

 wood, and having the appearance of eyes. The whole mask seems as 

 if it was intended to represent the dorsal surface of a whale. To the 

 outer margin large feathers were formerly pegged in, of which only the 

 shafts remain. 



No. 04210. — Maskette used by the Innuit of the Kuskokwim River, 



