832 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



at Cape Vancouver, Alaska, by Mr. E. W. ]!^elson. The specimen is 

 made of bone, and is decorated with incised lines extendiigfrom point 

 to i)oint along- either edge, with interior markings of short lines, as 

 shown on the specimen. 



Plate 23, fig. 4, represents a fishing implement made of reindeer horn. 

 It is slightly curved and forked at either end, three of the four ends 

 terminating in heads, probably that of the seal. The chief decoration 

 consists of a median line extending from end to end, to which are 

 attached several pairs of characters representing the herring bone 

 pattern, though with the addition of short outer lines. 



The perforation visible in the center is intended for holding a drill. 



Plate 35, figs. 1, 2, and 3, represents small ivory thimble holders or 

 guards. The ornamentation upon these is different, that upon fig. 1 

 and fig. 2 consisting, respectively, of simple borings or depressions and 

 concentric rings, while upon fig. 3 appears a continuous line, to which 

 are attached several pairs of short oblique radiating lines, as in plate 

 29, fig. 1. 



Plate 35, fig. 4, represents a seine thimble holder from Kushunuk. 

 This is a rude outline of a seal with the young placed transversely to 

 its back, while the ornamentation consists of several sizes of concentric 

 rings, two of which show radiating lines attached to the outer surface. 



Plate 35, fig. 0, represents a thimble guard from Unalakleet. The 

 ornamentation upon this is in imitation of that from the Northwest 

 Coast northward from Kotzebue Sound, and consists almost exclusively 

 of various patterns of the zigzag or meander design. 



Plate 23, fig. 3, is marked in the catalogue as a bone grass comb, from 

 Kotzebue Sound. Mr. Murdoch, who has examined the specimen in 

 my presence, believes it to be simply an ordinary comb for personal 

 use. The ornamentation is divided into two panels, separated by four 

 parallel transverse lines, each about one-eighth of an inch from the 

 other. Short lines, placed closely side by side, radiate from the inner 

 lines toward the outer. These inner lines with short radiating lines are 

 reproduced at either end of the specimen. Reference to the illustra- 

 tion will more clearly represent this. In the upper panel is the por- 

 trayal of a whale, with some other lines probably intended to denote 

 whales, but the figures were not completed. There is also a depression, 

 which was used for the insertion of the top of a drill. The lower panel 

 contains several pairs of parallel lines, between which is the rude out- 

 line of a steamboat representing a revenue cutter. 



Plate 49, figs. 1 and 2, represents ivory implements, probably used in 

 connection with harness. The former is decorated with a series of 

 nucleated rings, all of one size and apparently made with the same 

 instrument, while on the latter the rings are replaced by simple per- 

 forations, some of which are about one-eighth of an inch in depth and 

 were subsequently filled with a hard gummy substance. The most of 

 them have now become emptied of this material. 



