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PLATE 186<br />

Masks of unidentified shamans of the Yakutat-Dry Bay area, coUected by George T. Emmons before 1888. Top left. Mask with carved<br />

mice on the cheeks that are supposed to discover the secrets of witchcraft and death and teU these to the shaman; from a shaman's<br />

gravehouse at Dry Bay (AMNH E/2511). Center, Mask representing the spirit of an Athabaskan man, surmounted by painted mooseskin<br />

(evidently bear's ears); from an old shaman's gravehouse at Yakutat, and probably part of the set shown on pi. 184 (AMNH 19/872).<br />

Bottom left. Mask representing the spirit of an eagle; one of three masks from a gravehouse on the Ankau-<strong>Lo</strong>st River drainage, 20 miles<br />

southeast of Yakutat (AMNH E/2486).

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