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loop passes down over n projecting peg- on the bottom f the box. 

 Following the outline of the box around the bottom, about one- third of 

 an inch from the edge is cut a bead in strong relief, and around the 

 sides extends a groove. The cover is carved to represent t.^e flattened 

 form of a seal with a large, broad head; the hind flippers are cut in 

 relief; the eyes are represented by two small white buttons, and the 

 nostrils by two white beads inlaid in the wood. The box is painted 

 red, with the exception of the groove around the sides and the incisioL , 

 outlining the flippers and the sides of the seal, which are black. The 

 inside of the cover has a curious conventional design painted in black, 

 intended as a private mark of the owner. 



Plate XLii, G, is a long oval box from Anogogmut, cut from a single 

 piece of wood and divided into two compartments of unequal size'»y 

 leading a partition at the smaller end when the interior was excavated. 

 The cover is neatly fitted and is hinged by two rawhide cords, and the 



Fig. 27— Wooden trinket box (i). 



fastening consists of a loop of rawhide tipped with a small ivory button, 

 in which is a hole which fits over a bone peg. xV groove is cut around 

 the top and the bottom of the box about half an inch from the edge, and 

 another passes around the center. The surface is painted r?d, with the 

 exception of the grooves, which are black. In the center " the cover 

 is set a round piece of white porcelain, and six smaller pieces are inlaid 

 in ouQ of the grooves. 



: Pigure 27 is a box from Anogogmut made from a single piece of wood, 

 fattened oval in outline, slightly convex above and very strongly so on 

 its lower surface. It is deeply excavated and has a neatly fitted cover 

 held in position by two rawhide hinges and fastened by a loop of cord 

 passed over a wooden peg on the lower edge of the box. On the upper 

 surface of the cover the figure of a seal is carved in relief, having iu the 

 center of the back a grotesque semihuman face, also in relief, probably 

 intended to represent the shade of the seal. The bottom of the box 

 is carved in the form of a larger seal witli the flippers in relief and a 



