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set, is a semihuman face carved in relief; it has ivory labrets at each 

 comer of the mouth, and inlaid pieces of ivory represent the eyes. 



Figure 9 of the plate shows a box, from Sabotnisky, cut from a single 

 piece of wood, flattened and slightly oval in outline, with truncated 

 ends. The form of a salmon is carved in relief on both the top and the 

 bottom, and a groove extends along the sides. The cover is attached 

 in the usual manner by rawhide hinges, and a cord is provided for 

 fastening it in front. 



Another box from Sfuguuugumut (number 36245) is made from a 

 single piece of wood, oval in outline, truncated at one end, with a sunken 

 ledge around the upper edge to receive the cover, which is slightly 

 convex and projects upward at one end to form a thumb-piece for rais 

 ing it. This projection is carved in the form of a cormorant s head, the 

 eyes being represented by incised circles. 



Figure 8, plate XLII, from Koiiigunugumut, is a long, quadrate, 

 wooden box, the top, bottom, and sides of which are made from sepa 

 rate pieces, the edges of the cover and the bottom being beveled. It is 

 fastened together with wooden pegs, and the cover is attached as usual 

 by rawhide hinges and fastened by a loop passing down over a project 

 ing peg in front. The bottom of the box is painted black around the 

 edges and crossed by black bars 5 the ends of the top and sides are 

 painted red, and a broad, black band extends around the middle. 



Figure 2, plate XLII, from St Lawrence island, is a workbox, circular 

 in form, made by bending a thin piece of spruce, three inches wide, so 

 that the ends overlap, and are sewed together with strips of whalebone 

 passed through slits pierced in both thicknesses of the beveled ends. 

 The top and the bottom are truncated cones in shape, chamfered and 

 fitted into grooves cut around the inner edges of the sides. A round 

 hole in the top serves for putting in and taking out small objects. 



Figure 1, plate XLII, from Sledge island, is a box 4 inches high and 

 4^ inches square, made of thin pieces of spruce smoothly finished. The 

 bottom is attached by wooden pegs; the sides are neatly mortised 

 together. The cover is hinged by two pieces of rawhide and is fast 

 ened in front by a double-end string passing through a rawhide loop 

 pendent from the cover. The handle on the cover consists of two 

 pieces of rawhide cord tied together in the middle, the ends passed 

 through holes and knotted inside, forming a loop about an inch and a 

 half in length. The box is grooved around the top and the sides in 

 parallel lines; the outer grooves, painted black, are broad and shallow, 

 while those on the inside are narrower and red in color both on the cover 

 and sides. On the center of the cover is a pointed oval groove, black 

 in color. The bottom of the box and a broad band around the sides are 







not painted. 



A circular box, from Sledge island (number 45093), is seven inches 

 high and over nine inches in diameter, made from a strip of spruce 

 bent until the beveled edges overlap, and sewed together with a double 



