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THE POINT BARROW KSKIMO. 



the hair out, pieced across the middle. The sides and ends are made of 

 the skins of four wolverine heads, without the lower jaw, cut off at the 

 nape and spread out and sewed together side by side with the hair out 

 ward and noses up. One head comes on each end of the bag and one 

 on each side, and the spaces between the noses are filled out with gus 

 sets of deerskin and wolverine skin. A narrow strip of the latter is 

 sewed round the mouth of the bag. The handle is of walrus ivory, 14| 

 inches long and about one-half inch square. There is a vertical hole 

 through it one-half inch from each end, and at one end also a trans 

 verse hole between this and the tip. One end of the thong which 

 fastens the handle to the bag is drawn through this hole and cut off 

 close to the surface. The other end is brought over the handle and 

 down through the vertical hole and made fast with two half-hitches into 

 a hole through the septum of the nose of the head at one end of the bag. 

 The other end of the handle is fastened to the opposite nose in the same 

 way, but the thong is secured in the hole by a simple knot in the end 

 above. On one side of the handle is an unfinished incised pattern. 



Flu. 1C7. Tool bag of wolverine skin. 



Fig. 167, No. 8977G [1004], is a similar bag, made of four wolverine 

 heads with the lower jaws attached. The bottom is of stout leather 

 without hair. The mouth is tied up by a bit of thong passed thrcragh 

 the nostrils of the two side heads so that it can spread open only 

 about If inches. The haiidle is broad and flat, made of walrus ivory, 

 and ornamented with an incised border on top. One end is broken and 

 pieced out with reindeer antler secured by a clumsy &quot;fishing&quot; of seal 

 twine, which is passed through holes in the two parts. The pieces seem 

 to have been riveted together as in the drill bow, No. 80777 [1004&] (Fig. 

 154), which belongs to this bag. There is a rivet still sticking in the 

 antler. It is possible that the ivory may have broken in the process of 

 riveting the two together. The handle has two vertical holes at each 

 end for the thong, by which it is fastened to the end noses, both in the 



