830 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895 



connections, and which has been compared to a certain degree with 

 the Papuan ornamentation referred to by Mr. Alfred C. Haddonj 

 Upon the two figures at the right hand are a series of small, nucleated 

 rings, and particularly in lig. 12 are shown several instances in which 

 these rings are surrounded by radiating lines, a bottom line extending 

 to a transverse base line or attached to another nucleated circle of like 

 form. These may be related to the flower symbols, to which Mr. 

 Lucien M. Turner makes reference in the letter which I have quoted. 



Plate 35, fig. 9, shows a tobacco box from Sledge Island. It is a rude 

 imitation of a seal, a small opening l)eing cut in the neck, while the 

 rear end was at one time undoubtedly closed by means of a wooden 

 plug. The ornamentation throughout consists of parallel lines between 

 which the incisions of short transverse lines are so arranged as to indi- 

 cate the rude meander or zigzag pattern. Upon the back are several 

 conventional tree patterns. 



Plate 25, fig. 1, represents an ivory casket from St. Michaels. It is 

 made of the upper hollow portion of a walrus tusk and is very pro- 

 fusely illustrated with the zigzag pattern, bordeis of which encircle 

 the specimen both above and below, while around the center is an 

 almost continuous pattern of six nucleated circles, each connected 

 with the other by means of continuous strips or zigzag ornamentation. 

 Between the two outer rims of each of these ornaments we find the 

 fish trap pattern, in some the plain zigzag, in another short transverse 

 lines, etc., showing various degrees of ornamentation of the same gen- 

 eral type. Eadiating from the outer circles of all the specimens are 

 short vertical lines at four opposite points, in imitation of the flower 

 symbol. On the remaining spaces between this central ornamentation 

 and the two outer margins are rows of small circles similarly orna- 

 mented within by concentric rings and upon the outside by radiating 

 lines. 



Tlie round box illustrated in plate 34, fig. 3, is from Norton Sound. 

 This was used for holding fishing tackle. The top and bottom are 

 made of wood, while the circular band is made of a flat piece of rein- 

 deer horn securely lashed together at the joints by means of two iron 

 and one copper clasp attached longitudinally. The surface of this 

 band of horn is very neatly ornamented around the upper portion in 

 zigzag pattern, while the corresponding border below has been left 

 plain. Between these two borders, however, are a series of figures of 

 concentric circles very neatly incised and arranged alternately, first a 

 large circle, then two small ones. Each of these figures is furthermore 

 ornamented by four radiating lines resembling the flower symbol, 

 although from the great number of concentric circles within it there 

 is suggested rather the idea of the symbol used to denote the nests 

 of kantags or wooden buckets obtained by barter from the Chukchi of 

 the Asiatic side. 



Plate 35, fig. 5, represents a bone -'mouthpiece" from Diomede 



