MURDOCH. ] MASKS. 367 
performance in which they were used. Some of them are of undoubted 
age. No.56499 [6] (Fig. 366) has been selected as the type of these masks. 
(ki/nau, from ki/na, face). Thisisarather good representation of a male 
human face, 8-8 inches long and 5:8 wide. It is quite smoothly carved 
out of cottonwood, and the back isneatly hollowed out, being more deeply 
excavated round the eyes and mouth and inside of the nose. The 
mouth is represented as wide open, showing the tip of the tongue at- 
tached to the underlip, and has six small teeth which look like dog’s 
incisors inserted in a row in the middle of the upper lip. The eye- 
brows and moustache are marked out with blacklead, and there are 
traces of red ocher on the cheeks. The holes for the strings are in the 
edge about on a level with the eyes. One end of a string of seal thong 
long enough to go around the wearer’s head is passed out through the 
hole on the right side, slit close to the tip, and the other end passed 
through this. The other end is passed out through the hole on the left 
Fic. 367.— Wooden mask and dancing gorget. 
and made fast with two half hitches. A row of small holes round the 
edge of the mask shows where a hood has been tackedon. This mask 
is rather old and somewhat soiled. 
A very old weathered mask (No. 56497 [235] from Utkiavwin), 7-8 
inches long, and made of soft wood, apparently pine, is similar to 
the preceding, but has no tongue, and the teeth in both jaws are rep- 
resented as a continuous ridge. It has an “imperial” as well as a 
moustache, marked with blacklead like the eyebrows. The cheeks 
are colored with red ocher. The edge is much gapped and broken, 
but shows the remains of a deep narrow groove running round on the 
outside about 4 inch from the edge, and pierced with small holes for 
fastening on a hood. 
Figure 367 (No. 89817 [856] also from Utkiavwin) is a mask much 
like the preceding, 7:5 inches long, and made of spruce. It is peculiar 
