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FIG. 331. Ivorv box. 



Fig. 330/y (Xo. 89402 [1359] also from Utkiavwlu), is peculiar from the 

 material of which it is made. It is of about the same pattern as the 

 common antler boxes, but is made of 

 the butt end of the 08 pen its of a large 

 walrus, cut oft square and hollowed out, 

 and has ends of hard whale s bone. Its 

 length is 4-2 inches. Xo. 89403 [1425] 

 Fig. 331 from Sidaru, is made of the hol 

 low butt of a good-sized walrus tusk, 3-2 

 inches long. It has a neatly fitted 

 wooden bottom, held in with tree 

 nails, two of ivory and four of wood. 

 The box has been cracked and split and 

 mended with stitches 

 of sinew and whale 

 bone. Peculiar con 

 ventional patterns are 

 incised on the box and 



cover. A peculiar box is shown in Fig. 332 (Xo. 56583 

 [37] from Utkiavwlfi). This is of compact white bone, 

 with a flat wooden bottom. I do not recollect seeing 

 any other boxes of the same sort. 

 Fig. 333 (No. 89409 [1372]) is the tip of a walrus tusk 



long, closed at the large end by a flat wooden bottom, fastened in with 

 treenails and at the small end by a stopper of soft wood. 



The most peculiar box of all, how 

 ever, is shown in Fig. 334 (Xo. 50512 

 [2] from Utkiavwlfi), the only speci 

 men of the kind seen. It is 5-5 

 inches long, made of reindeer antler, 

 and very neatly carved into a most 

 excellent image of a reindeer lying 

 on its left side, with the head, which 

 has no antlers, turned down and to 

 the left. The legs are folded up 

 against the belly, the forelegs with 

 the hoofs pointing backward, the 

 hind hoofs pointing forward. The 

 eyes are represented by small sky- 

 blue glass beads, and the mouth, 

 nostrils, and navel neatly incised, 

 the last being particularly well- 

 marked. The tips of the hoofs are 

 rounded oft , which, taken in connec 

 tion with the attitude and the well marked navel, lead me to believe 



Fio. 333. Little 

 rtnsk of ivorv. 



Flo. 334. Box ill shape &amp;lt; 

 dwr. 



