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the adjacent Siberian coast women have the sides of tbeir faces (figure 

 12) and their arms and breasts covered with finely designed patterns of 

 circles and scroll work, sometimes crossed by straight lines. 



At East cape, the women ordinarily have six or eight pairs of lines 

 crossing their chins, and on each side of their faces patterns of circles 





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 Fig. 13— Tattooing on a woman of St Lawrence isl.iinl. 



and spiral lines; also, two or three vertical, parallel lines crossing their 

 temples and extending to the chin. The patterns on the cheeks 

 usually cover a space about four inches in width extending from the ear 

 toward the nose and from the eye to the lower jaw. 



On the inside of the forearm two long parallel lines usually extend 

 from the elbow to the bor- 

 der of the palm. These 

 are crossed just below the 

 elbow by two short lines, 

 and the svrist is crossed by 

 four lines which soxuetimes 

 completely encircle that part of the arm (figure 14). On the body the 

 tattooing covers the breast and sometimes the shoulders and upper 

 arms. 



The pattern shown in figure 12 was seen on the face of a little girl of 

 St Lawrence island. Figure 13, showing the tattooing' on the face of a 



Fig. 14 — Tattooing on a woman's arm, East cape, Siberia. 



