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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



The designs are incised and filled in with red paint. These the writer is disposed 

 to class with the Korean lio-lipai as personal emblems. One of them (fig. 195) is in the 



Fig. 196. 



TLINOIT TABLETS. 



Length, 4^ to 4| inches. 

 Alaska. 



Cat. No. 1683726, c, d, U.S.N. M. 



form and is marked like the feathered shaftment of an arrow. It bears at the upper 

 end on one side the Avord vocasa inscribed in Roman letters. Another somewhat 



I'ig. 197. 



TLINGIT TABLETS. 



Length, 4 to 4| inches. 

 Alaska. 



Cat. No. lesSlSe,/, ff, U.S.N.M. 



K,=^ 



similar tablet in the University Museum (Cat. No. 15319) is represented in fig. 201. 

 It is not imi)08sible that this string of bones collected by Lieutenant Emmons and 



