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MASKED DANCERS - QÁGYUHL
The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band, and a few spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a part of the painted máwihl through which the dancers emerge from the secret room; and in the center, between the carved house-posts, is the Awaitlala háms'pek, showing three of the five mouths through which the hamatsa wriggles from the top to the bottom of the column.