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general shape is somewhat like the St. Lawrence Island wrist guard, 

 although it has no slots or other openings through which a thong 

 might pass except the handle-like loop at the top. This specimen is 

 of particular interest in that the design combines features typical of the 

 several stages of art in the Bering Sea region. The three petaloid 

 figures are most suggestive of the older phase, while the deeply in- 

 cised parallel lines in bands of four and the Y-shaped figure are char- 

 acteristic of the Punuk and recent stages. The spurs attached to the 

 lines and curves are common to all three stages, having been retained 

 in the art of the Alaskan Eskimo from the earliest known times to 

 the present. 



Plate 10, a-b, represents an object of unknown use gracefully 

 decorated in the style typical of Punuk. One wing is broken ofif. A 

 complete specimen similar to this is shown on plate 13, /, from Cape 

 Kialegak. In the present specimen there is a rectangular socket in the 

 base 16 mm. deep which was made by drilling. From the socket a 

 round hole 7 mm. in diameter extends through the base of each wing. 

 The depression at the top of the central upright section and the socket 

 at the base are features that were seen also in the object on plate 6. 

 Lines terminating in dots, short converging lines enclosing dots, and 

 small squares form the design, which is often found recurring in the 

 Punuk style of the old Bering Sea art. The designs on the two sides 

 are made continuous by the single connecting line that crosses 

 over at the center of the wing on the inner side. The object from 

 Point Hope ^ illustrated by Mathiassen is very similar in outline and 

 practically identical as to the general style of ornamentation. In form 

 it is intermediate l^etween the present specimen and that shown on 

 plate 6. 



The two objects shown in c-d and e, plate 10, while not from Punuk 

 Island or Cape Kialegak, are introduced for the reason that they 

 represent a common St. Lawrence type and a variant of the class of 

 objects illustrated by a-b of this plate, a-b, plate 6, and a-b, plate 7, 

 and corresponding specimens described by Gordon, Jenness, and 

 Mathiassen. In c-d are shown two views of one of these objects 

 from St. Lawrence Island, purchased by Mr. H. W. Krieger. Like 

 the specimen just described it has a basal socket and a small de- 

 pression in the top of the central projection which, however, is joined 

 to the wings. This socket is round and only 12 mm. in diameter, 

 and in it is the broken end of the wooden shaft which probably formed 

 its handle. The decoration on both sides consists of deeply and evenly 



* Indian Notes, Vol. 6, No. i, fig. 19. 



