132 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



the right side, curving to the left, ;i little downward, and then following 

 the curve of the righl margin upward to a poinl above the right eye- 

 brow. There is no left eye or eyebrow. 



No. 37180 Plate XXVII, fig. 69).— Finger mask about 4 inches long, 

 collected by E. W. Nelson on the Lower Kuskokwim River. A circular 

 disk of 3 inches, connected with a T-shaped handle below, and no per 

 forated fingerstall. Disk somewhal excavated, with narrow margin. 

 Center occupied by a round face. The bottom of the groove separating 

 the face from the margin is marked with a red line. The left eye. and 

 the space around it. is eoneave : the eye semi-lunar and perforated. A 

 Single nostril is indicated, the outer point of winch is somewhat turned 

 up on the left side. Therighl eye is represented by a round, projecting 

 peg. There is no right nostril. The mouth commences below the mid- 

 dle oi the lett eye. on the left side, and curves up over what would be 

 therighl cheek to a point midway between the peg which represents 

 tic right eye and the groove surrounding the face. The whole is carved 

 in very slight rebel'. The margin is surrounded with a strip of deer 

 skin, retaining the hair like the others, and one or two strips of bird's 

 skin which formerly had the feathers upon them, to the end of which a 

 single white feather is fastened. The workmanlike smoothness and 

 artistic finish of the disk is poorly represented by the wood cut. which 

 has an appearance of rudeness not characteristic of the original. 



LNNTJIT MASKS FROM NORTON SOUND AND THE YUKON DF.LTA. 



No. 33113. — From the Innuit of Norton Sound, Alaska: collected by 

 E. W. Nelson; collector's number, 1428. A maskette of oval form, 

 about 2 feet 2 inches over all in length, and 10 inches wide in the middle. 

 The disk is about 1 1 inches in length, and apparently represents in the 

 center a kyak with a deep groove, colored red, on each side of it, about 

 1A inches wide, outside of w Inch is the margin of the mask, whitened. 

 The groove is set with pegs, resembling teeth, alternately placed, those 

 on the inside alternating with those on the outside; there are about 

 seven on each side. In the kyak. where the hole for the sitter would 

 U-. is represented a face in relief, with perforated eyes. Mouth and 

 nostrils not perforated. The main groundwork of the whole mask is 

 w hit cued; the outlines touched in in black. The mouth of the face is col- 

 ored red : the nostrils and eyes black. Something resembling a beard 

 is represented by dashes of black. The nostrils point nearly forward, 

 and are circular. Above this face is a rectangular thin piece of wood 

 about 4 inches long by 1'A; high, fastened at the bottom somewhat in the 

 manner of a sounding-board, and on it is represented the figure of a 

 seal in black. At the top and bottom ends of the oval disk, under the 

 bow and stern of the kyak, are represented two large hands, about 6 



