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PLATE 207<br />

Masks and maskette of the unidentified XatkA'ayi shaman, collected from his gravehouse on the shore of Dry Bay by George T.<br />

Emmons before 1888. (See also pis. 204-206, 208.) Top left. Mask representing a young woman with her face painted to symbolize a<br />

killerwhale fin (AMNH E/1629). Top right. Broken mask representing a young woman (AMNH E/1630). Bottom left. Broken mask<br />

representing a young woman (AMNH E/1632). Bottom center, maskette representing a Tlingit, detached from a headdress of eagle and<br />

magpie feathers (AMNH E/1634). Bottom right. Broken mask representing an old woman with a labret (AMNH E/1628). These masks,<br />

and that on pi. 206 bottom, are from a set of eight masks representing a tribe of women spirits that live in the clouds.

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