428 TWO REMARKABLE SKULLS 



very neatlj' modelled; but they are strongly everted, an 

 arrangement which gives the mouth a half open appearance. 

 The chin and the lower part of the face generallj^ are in both 

 masks modelled on rather attractive lines. 



The Decorations on the Masks. — -The decorations on No. 1 

 mask consist of a circular target-like design, painted on 

 each cheek,- on the centre of the forehead, and on the chin. 

 The circle on each cheek is better preserved than the others. 

 It is 45 mm. in diameter and consists of an outer ring 10 mm. 

 in width painted white. The inner circle demarcated in 

 this way is 25 mm. in diameter, and painted a pale pink. 

 This had become somewhat faded but was apparently the 

 colour adopted for all the inner circles. 



The circle on the brow is 36 mm. in chameter, and con- 

 sists of an outer belt of white 10 mm. in width enclosing 

 an inner circle, painted pale pink, 16 mm. in diameter. 



The circle on the chin extends from the edge of the lower 

 hp to the tip of the chin. It is 31 mm. in diameter, and is 

 surrounded as usual by a white band 10 mm. in width 

 enclosing an inner pale pink central portion 11 mm. in 

 diameter. 



The scheme of decoration adopted for No. 2 mask is 

 rather peculiar and striking. The outer portions are entirely 

 coloured a pale blue, reminding the writer strongly of the 

 blue clay with which housewives in Scotland, especially in 

 fishing villages of the east coast, are so fond of decorating 

 their door steps and window ledges. The line of demarcation 

 of this outer blue area from the iron-rust brown coloured 

 part of the mask is very sharply defined, and runs symmetric- 

 ally in a downward and inward direction on the forehead 

 towards the root of the nose, where the two edges are sep- 

 arated merely by a gap of 9 mm. From this point the 

 lines follow the lateral margins of the nose, thus mapping 

 it out very definitely from the rest of the mask. The lines 

 then run downwards just clear of the angles of the mouth. 



