56 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [eth.an.v. 18 



from the same locality represents a grotesque human face with tufts 

 tied on each side to represent a woman's braided hair, while another 

 (plate XXIV, 17), obtained also at the same place, represents the features 

 of a seal. 



The only metal earrings obtained were collected on the lower Yukon. 

 They are made of copper, of the usual round style worn by women, with 

 concentric circles on the iface and projecting knobs at the corners. 



A pair of earrings (plate xxiv, 9), obtained at St Michael by Mr L. M. 

 Turner, show smooth, disk-like faces three-eighths of an inch in diam- 

 eter, back of which project for about a quarter of an inch rounded 

 ivory pins extending downward three-quarters of an inch to roughly 

 truncated tips pierced for the reception of the ends of a. string of beads. 

 These are the only earrings of this description that were seen. 



A pair from Cape Vancouver (plate xxiv, 12) are long, narrow, and 

 oval in shape. They are an inch long, by three-eighths of an inch wide, 

 and taper down to a narrow, flattened point pierced as usual for attach- 

 ing a string of beads. Extending lengthwise along the median line of 

 the faces is a ridge from which the surface is beveled away on both 

 sides. On this doubly beveled surface is represented, by means of 

 incised lines and dots, a grotesque human face with labret holes below 

 the corners of the mouth. 



Another pair, from Nulukhtulogumut (plate xxiv, 10), are broadly 

 oval in outline with a grotesque human face on the front; they measure 

 seven-eighths of an inch long by nearly three-quarters of an inch wide. 



Plate XXV, 9, shows a pair from Chalitmut, three quarters of an inch 

 long by half an inch wide, having an oval outline and a slightly con- 

 vex face. An incised line extends vertically through the center, with 

 two j)airs of beveled lines extending thence diagonally downward to 

 the border on each side. In the three spaces thus made along each 

 side of the surface are three small circles and dots. From the lower 

 ends of these rings hang two pendants of beads two and one-half inches 

 in length, and a string of beads twelve inches in length connects them 

 below the chin. 



A pair of rounded earrings from Sfugunugumut (i>late xxv, 7) are 

 about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter and have knob-like projec- 

 tions on four corners, each of the latter having an incised dot in the 

 center. The faces are marked by two concentric circles, with a hole in 

 the center, which is plugged with wood. A hole in the lower edge of 

 these rings serves to attach the upper edge of a band over four inches 

 in length, made of seven strings of beads, which are spaced near. the 

 upper end by a flattened ivory rod an inch and a half long, pierced 

 with a hole for each string. Near the lower end they are held in place 

 by a similar strip made from a thick piece of sealskin. 



On the islands as well as on both shores of Bering strait, the women 

 frequently wear pendent from their earrings, in place of beads, strings 

 of the little orange-color horny sheaths from the angle of the bill of 



