Show RITUAL of ahe I 1 HE ESKIMO elaborate ceremonies held at the re fla turn of the sun it might be supposed that the Es esl mo me wore were too much occupied in for fortely tily ing themselves against hunger anil and albl ceremonies an explorer in arctic alaska ho however vever reports that the natives have quite an elaborate ritual in the course of 0 which huge and gr grotesque 0 masks are used their principal festival Is held at easter nhen they celebrate the return ot of ti the e r sun un eskimo dressed in appropriate eos costumes and wearing masks personate the sun the moon and various arctic animals and there them Is much chanting and dancing some of 0 the masks are so BO heavy that they have to be suspended from the root roof of the house in whid the ceremonies are held the actors simply standing behind them and wag ging them from rom side to side all the ina masks ake are carved not only with a rugged resemblance ot of the object or animal represented out but with a hideous human face designed to represent its this Is due to the tt eskimo b belief e that every animal and thing has haa a spirit ot of human form orm and features in some lome cases case the mask Is made to open by means ol of hinged doors shoeing another mask formed like a human face beneath |