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taken by the ghosts to the lower world. For this purpose a long, deep 
ditch is dug out behind the fire. The dancer, who wears a long veil of 
cedar-bark over his face, has a rope tied round his waist, which is held 
Fig. 19.—Ia’/kHim Head-mask. 
by his attendants. Speaking tubes of kelp are laid so as to terminate in 
the fire. Through these many voices are heard, and the ghosts take the 
dancer into the lower world, ¢.e., he disappears in his ditch, drawing the 
rope after him, while the others feign to try to hold him. After a while 
