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PLATE 174
Masks of Libbey's unknown Yakutat shaman. Top, from left to right: Mask representing the spirit of a man singing (TBM/WSM
2256). Mask with face paint symbolizing the octopus (PU 3923). Mask representing the spirit of a man singing (PU 3957). Bottom,
left to right: Mask representing the spirit of a shark, with copper eyebrows and lips (PU 3922), Mask representing a hawk (?) with
small faces in the "ears" (PU 3911). Mask representing the spirit of a very old woman with a labret (TBM/WSM 2271), While the
first and last masks were collected by George T, Emmons from an old gravehouse at Yakutat "sometime before 1909," they are so
similar in style to the others which were collected by William S, Libbey in 1886 from a gravehouse near Port Mulgrave, that they
probably all came from the same grave, especially since both collectors were in Yakutat when the grave was rifled, (See also pis, 170-
173, 175-177.)