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Teqwedi headdresses and dancing masks. Top left, A wooden maskette for a headdress said to have been owned by Kax-da-xetl, Teqwedi
chief of Shark House, probably Chief Minaman or Daqusetc, who died in 1890. This maskette represents a Golden Eagle grasping a
creature (frog ?) between whose eyes is a large red disk. In its mouth, the creature holds three human faces said to represent the
Eagle's children. The faces aU are blue-green; the lips are red; and the Eagle's brows and the spaces around the creature's eyes are
black. Abalone shell inlay was used for the eyes and around the upper edges of the maskette. Most of the inlay has fallen out, as have
the flicker feathers and sealion whiskers that surmounted the top edge. This headdress is not the same as that worn by Chief Yenaht-setl
when photographed by WiUiam S. Libbey in 1886. (Kodachrome by Edward Mahn at Yakutat in 1949.) Top right, A dancing
mask used by the Teqwedi and made by Tom Coxe, K^'ackqwan (d. after 1921), and son of the shaman, Tek-'ic. The mask is painted
bright blue and red. (Photographed at Yakutat in 1949.) Bottom left, A Golden Eagle headdress made by a Tsimshian and purchased
hj a Yakvitat man of the Drum House Teqwedi, Xaw-h-gau, Yaqwan, before 1886. The eyebrows are painted black; the mouth,
throat and forelegs are red; and the remainder (including the small figure—perhaps the groundhog—caught by the Golden Eagle) is
blue-green. The "groundhog" was said to have been added "just to fancy the mask." The teeth and eyes of both figures, the ears of
the "groundhog," and the rim of the mask, are all inlaid with abalone shell. The headdress is surmounted by sealion whiskers and
flicker feathers (fastened to a felt crown). A long cape of ermine skins backed by white canvas would fall to the shoulders of the wearer,
(Photographed at Yakutat in 1949.) Bottom right, A dancing mask representing an Eagle, made by B. A. Jack, K'*'ackqwan (1860-1949),
for Ned Daknaqin, Teqwedi (d. before 1921), who wore it at a potlatch and paid the maker "so many dollars for his respect." The
mask is decorated with feathers at the top and has suspension cords. The G\es are not pierced. The colors of the commercial paints
used were not recorded. (Photographed at Yakutat in 1949).