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GRINNELL 



except by one who has made the subject a study, while still 

 others represent mythical and sacred personages. Certain 

 rayed masks, not unlike the one shown on page 149, are re- 

 garded as sun masks. Masks are often ornamented with 

 fringes of hair, down, cedar bark, or quills; others are in- 

 laid with pieces of abalone shell or bits of ivory. Those 

 representing the heads of huge birds are sometimes so 

 arranged that by pulling certain strings the bills may be 

 rapidly opened and shut so as to make a clattering sound. 

 Masks of another class are double. The outer portion is 

 divided vertically — and sometimes horizontally — in two 



or four pieces, which 

 are hinged to the 

 solid inner piece. 

 These outer pieces, 

 when strings are 

 pulled, fly apart and 

 outward and reveal 

 another face within. 

 Of the two faces the 

 outer one may be that 

 of an animal and the 

 inner of a man. 



The most common 

 form of animal mask 

 represents the eagle, 

 raven, puffin, hawk, 

 bear, wolf, or deer. 

 To the left on page 

 149 is a puffin mask. 

 At a little distance 

 from the village, usu- 

 ally overlooking the 

 water, sometimes on a steep side hill, or on a little 

 point which forms the side of a bay, are the graves of 



INDIAN GRAVE AT WRANGELL. 



