134 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



This maskette is a fair representative of a very common type; its color- 

 ation is eh icily black and white and it has uo perforations. It was 

 doubtless attached to the head dress and worn in one of the pantomimic 

 dances. From this variety to the other, in which the face is distorted or 

 a small human face looks out from the side of that of the animal, the 

 distance is not great. 



No. .'J0109. — Collected by E. W. Nelson, south of the Lower Yukon; 

 collector's number, 1445. Innuit maskette over all about 18 inches in 

 length, representing a figure with arms and legs extended and bent for- 

 ward. The disk of the mask consists of the body of this figure, to which 

 the head and neck, arms and legs of the figure are attached. These are 

 also supported by a small wooden hoop in front, at a distance of about 

 2 or 3 inches from the body. The body of the mask is of a squarish form, 

 beveled off to meet the neck and also to the attachments to the limbs. 

 It is white. The central part of it circularly excavated. In the bottom 

 of the excavation is a round face with perforated mouth and eyes. The 

 edge around the face is colored red with round white spots, about ten in 

 number, at nearly equal intervals. The face is white. The eyebrows are 

 black and a black line passes around the eyes above and below and over 

 the nose, like the frame of a pair of spectacles. There is a black line over 

 each nostril. The nostrils themselves, a mustache (divided in the mid- 

 dle by a white line), and a sort of goatee — all these are black. The lips 

 are red, mouth concave downward, without teeth, and nearly closed. 

 The head has a long neck and an oval face, with ears and mouth red, 

 dotted black mustache and eyebrows; black eyes, not perforated; and 

 the usual black mark on the chin. The groundwork is whitened. The 

 arms and legs of the first joint from the body, are white, surrounded by 

 a black baud, with a white spot on it. The distal joint of each limb is 

 reddened, with a white spot. Something has, at one time, been pegged 

 to the palm of each hand and to the ankle of each leg. Between the 

 arm and the leg on each side, and nearest to the former, has been 

 pegged in one feather, and a piece of wood rudely carved to represent 

 a baud, fastened by the shaft of a feather so that it will move when the 

 mask is shaken. 



. — Innuit maskette probably from Norton Sound, with- 

 out a number; collected by E. W. Nelson. Height of disk about S inches, 

 diameter about 6, nearly flat, margin reddened, forehead of a bluish 

 green, cheeks between eyebrows and mouth whitened. The right eye- 

 brow reddened, also the mouth. A round hole in the center of the fore- 

 head, about three-quarters of an inch in diameter. The left eye repre- 

 sented by a similar round hole. The nose is curved to the right very 

 strongly. No nostrils are represented. The right eye is represented 

 (almost closed) by a curved perforation slightly concave upwards. In 

 the center of the right cheek is a prominence, with a circular hole in it, 

 and a nearly flat margin. The nose appears as if it was turned some- 

 what towards this prominence. The mouth is narrow, sharply pointed 



