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THK POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



end. Each ring is made, by doubling a long piece of twine so that the 

 two parts are equal, passing one end through the bight and knotting it 

 to the other. The box and cover seem to have been painted inside and 

 out with red ocher. On the outside this is mostly faded and worn oft 

 and covered with dirt, but inside it has turned a dark brown. Fig. 1 (!4/&amp;gt; 

 (No. 89858 [1310], from Utkiavwin,) is a similar box, 21-1 inches long. 

 The cover is held on by a string passing over little hooked ivory studs 

 close to the edge of the box. There were originally live of these studs, 

 two at each end and one in the middle of one side. The string started 

 from one of these studs at the pointed end. This stud is broken and 

 the string fastened into a hole close to it. To fasten on the cover the 

 string was carried over and hooked under the opposite stud, then 

 crossed over the cover to the middle stud, then across to the end stud 

 on the other side, and the loop on the end hooked onto the last stud. 



No. 80850 [1318] is a smaller box (10 inches long) of the same pat 

 tern, with only four studs. The cover has three large blue glass beads, 



FIG. 165. Large wooden tool boxes. 



like those used for labrets, inlaid in a line along the middle. No. 89858 

 [1144], from Utkiavwin, is the shape of the type, but has a thicker 

 cover and six stud holes in the margin. No. 80861 [1151], Fig. 1C5, 

 from the same place, is shaped something like a violin case, 22-2 inches 

 long. The cover has been split and &quot;stitched&quot; together with whale 

 bone, and a crack in the broader end of the box has been neatly mended 

 by pegging on, with nine little wooden treenails, a strap of reindeer 

 antler of the same width as the edge and following the curve of its 

 outline. There are four studs, two at each end. The string is made 

 fast to one at the smaller end, carried over to the opposite one, then 

 crossed to the opposite stud at the other end and back under the last 

 one, a bight of the end being tucked under the string between the two 

 last-mentioned studs. The string is made of sinew braid, rope-yarns, 

 and a long piece of seal thong. It was probably at nrst all of sinew 



