200 MASKS AND LABRETS. 



PLATE XXVIII. 



Fig. 71 (A). — Aleutian dancing mask, used during social festivals among the Aleuts, 

 showing the method of wearing the labret then in vogue. From a figure in 

 Sauer's account of Billings' Voyage, plate xi, figure not numbered; 1792 (page 

 141). 



Fig. 72 (B). — A grotesque mask used on similar occasions, showing the cleat-shaped 

 labret described by early navigators. C indicates the same labret in profile. 

 From a figure in Sauer's account of Billiugs' Voyage, plate xi, figure not num- 

 bered ; (page 141). 



Fig. 73 (13002). — Aleutian death mask, obtained from a rock shelter where the dead 

 were laid, near Delaroff Harbor, Unga, Shumagin Islands, Alaska. Obtained and 

 preseuted to the U. S. National Museum by W. H. Dall; front and both profiles 

 shown; (page 142). 



