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The diction is largely that of the forum. The notional terms 

 employed are those of statecraft and ritualism — the language of 

 Statesmen and stateswomen and prophets of that earlier time, who 

 even then had measurably clear visions of institutions of to-day. 



Fig. 114. — Red-faced mask of a 

 Wind God. A deity of Disease 

 and the East. 



Fig. 115. — Black-faced mask of 

 a Wind God. A deity of Disease 

 and the West. 



such as the recall, the initiative, the referendum, woman sufifrage 

 limited to mothers for the election of nominees to chiefships. and a 

 colonial jwlicy. Tt may be added here that the men had no voice 

 in the nomination of chiefs. 



