MURDOCH.] MASKS. 369 
ured is roughly whittled out of the bottom of an old meat tray. It has 
the hair, eyebrows, and a single stripe of tattooing on the chin marked 
with black lead. This came from Utkiavwin (No. 89811 [1037]). 
Another “commercial” mask (No. 
89813) [1074] from Utkiavwin) is 
very elaborate, but roughly and care- 
lessly made. It is almost flat, with 
the features hardly raised in relief. 
In each corner of the mouth is in- 
serted a slender ivory tusk about 1 
inch long, and besides the eyebrows, 
moustache, and imperial, there is a 
broad ‘‘whaleman’s mark” running 
obliquely across the right cheek from 
the bridge of the nose. Six long 
feathers are stuck in the edge of the 
forehead. Curiously enough these 
are the feathers of the South Ameri- 
can ostrich, and came from the feather 
duster in use at our station. 
Fig. 370 (No. 56496 [258] from Utkiaywin) represents, rather rudely, 
a wolf’s face and ears, and is the only animal mask we obtained or saw. 
It is of cottonwood, old and weathered, and is 4:7 inches long and 6:5 
wide. It is painted on the edge with red ocher and has a streak 
of the same color 
down the ridge of the 
nose. The string is 
of whalebone and un- 
braided sinew pieced 
together. 
Fig. 371 (No. 89815 
[1050] from Utkiay- 
win) is a mask that 
seems almost too 
small to have been 
worn, being only 6-1 
inches long and 4:7 ; 
wide. It is very old, Fic. 371.—Very ancient 
made of blackened cot- SHEMDEE 
tonwood, and is the rudest representation of the human face which 
we saw. It is simply an oval disk, concavo-conyex, with holes cut for 
the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. The rough eutting about the chin ap- 
pears to have been done with a stone tool, and the mouth seems to be 
smeared with blood. The string passed through the holes in the fore- 
head to hang it up by is much newer than the mask, being braided 
from cotton twine and fastened to a common galvanized boat nail. 
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FiG, 369. —Rude mask of wood. 
Fig. 370.—Wolf mask of wood. 
