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are no circles, but instead two (originally four) small eye-shaped 

 designs at the center. 



Plate 2, a-h, and /, are from the Washington State Museum ; the 

 exact localities from which they came are not known. The first is 

 very similar in shape to e, the only difference being the more irregular 

 outline of the terminal barb. The ornamentation is reduced to only a 

 few simple lines. 



Plate 2, /, is a small harpoon head of a peculiar type, of which four 

 examples have been described previously: one by Wissler,^ from 

 Cape Smythe near Point Barrow ; two by Jenness ^ from the Diomede 

 Islands, and one by Mathiassen * from Banks Island. The features 

 common to harpoon heads of this type are three terminal barbs, the 

 central one being the longest ; a long open socket that reaches to about 

 the center ; small side blades of stone, either parallel or at right angles 

 to the shaft socket ; and most striking of all, where the slots for the 

 lashing come to the surface on the upper side, a deep sunken area at 

 either end of which is a circular perforation also for lashing. In the 

 present specimen the upper perforation has been started from both 

 sides but has not been drilled through. The decoration, which is very 

 similar to the other specimens of the type described, consists of 

 nucleated concentric circles and finely incised lines. 



The decoration on c-d, also from the Washington State Museum, 

 consists of straight and curved lines and concentric circles, but no 

 dotted lines. It differs from the other two in having a rectangular 

 sunken area around one side to hold the lashing in place, instead of a 

 second slot through which it usually passed. There is also a smaller 

 barb, undecorated, opposite the larger one. 



In g and h are shown two undecorated heads from St. Lawrence 

 Island owned by Mr. C. L. Andrews of Seattle. They have open sock- 

 ets, no slit for an end blade, two and three terminal barbs, and on each 

 side just above the line hole a deep groove for holding a side blade. 



Plate 3, h, is a box handle, Washington State Museum collection, 

 from northern Alaska. It is ornamented with four pairs of raised 

 elliptical " eyes " with small holes sunk deep into the centers. They 

 are separated and encircled by flowing lines. 



Plate 3, a, is a similarly decorated box handle that I bought at 

 Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, where it had been excavated. This 



^Anthrop. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. XIV, Pt. II, p. 410, 1916. 



*Ann. Rep. for 1926, Nat. Mus. Canada, pi. XIII, a; and Amer. Geogr. Soc, 

 Special Pub. No. 7, fig. 3, c. 



' Indian Notes, Vol. 6, No. i, fig. 13, b. Probably not from Banks Island. See 

 footnote, p. 36. 



