PLATE III
1
Example of gorget, or breast-ornament, of wood, used by the Eskimo of western Alaska in shamanistic dances, often in combination with a mask. On the original (now in the United States National Museum), the central figure of a man standing on a whale and holding fishes is painted in red, all the other figures be ing in black. The central figure represents a marine god or giant, probably the Food-Giver. See Note 9, (p. 274).
2
Harpoon-rest with sketch of a mythic bird capturing a whale. From Cape Prince of Wales. Now in United States National Museum. The bird is probably the Thunderbird, as in the similar motive in the art of the North-West Coast Indians.
