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Plate XLV, 14, from the lower Yukon, is a small housewife covered on 

 the inside with ornamental i)atterns'of red, white, and black. It con- 

 tains three pockets, and is bordered with a narrow strip of muskrat 

 skin; the back is made of flshskin. 



Plate XLV, 32, from the lower Yukon, is a piece of flshskin intended to 

 form the outer ends of a large housewife. It is sewed with ornameutal 

 patterns, oval in outline on three sides and straight across the other, 

 and bordered by a narrow fringe of sealskin. 



Plate XLV, 31, obtained on Xunivak island by Dr W. H. Dall, is a 

 good example of a housewife made from the skin of reindeer ears, 

 bordered by a fringe of small strips of the same material. The sides 

 have a border of white reindeer skiu, surrounded by a narrow strip of 

 sealskin and miuk fur around its upper edge. The interior is divided 

 into <juadrate spaces by parallel seams of black and white and rows of 

 small beads. At intervals around the outer edges are little tags of red 

 worsted. The string for fastening is covered with beads. 



Plate XLV, 15, shows a specimen from Big lake, with a central band 

 of deerskin about an inch and a half wide by ten inches long, bordered 

 along each side with skins from six reindeer ears sewed together along 

 the sides. On one end is a semilunar piece of skin, having its front 

 covered with rows of beads and an ornamental i)attern of white and 

 reddish sealskin, sewed with sinew thread and strips of white quills. 

 The inside is crossed by parallel rows of stitching with red-painted 

 border lines: the inclosed areas are not colored, but are adorned with 

 small clusters of beads in their centers. 



A large number of the fastening rods were obtained. The following, 

 figured in plate xlv, illustrate a few of the variations in form and 

 outline : 



Figure 29, from Nunivak island, and figure 30, from Big lake, show 

 two fastening rods in the shape of salmon. 



Figure 27, from Konigunugumut, and figure 28, from Agiukchugu- 

 mut, are also fish-like in form. 



Figure 24, from Ukagamut, is a neatly carved rod in two sections, 

 united by a cross bar. On one side is represented a white Avhale, and 

 on the other a seal, the figures being very much elongated and slit 

 through the backs. 



Figure 26, from ISTulukhtulogumut, is a round fastening rod, repre- 

 senting a seal; it has an eye at the lower end for attaching the cord. 



Figure 25 shows a rod from Big lake which terminates in the head 

 and tail of a wolf, the legs of the animal being represented by etched 

 lines on the surface. 



Figure 17, from the lower Yukon, is a small, rod-like piece of ivory 

 with a grotesque head at each end, one side apparently representing 

 that of a bird and the other that of some other creature. 



Figure 13, from Ohalitmut, is a handsome, flat, ivory rod, having ou 

 one side at each end the flgure of a seal carved in relief, and in the cen- 

 ter the head of a man surrounded by a raised border with ray-like, 



