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to three faces on the other; it is pierced with holes, in pairs, to receive 

 the lashings, with which it is bound on the back of a helmet to hold the 

 bent ends of the wood in position. A walrus head, cut from ivory, from 

 Kushunuk (Museum number 38719), is for ornamenting the front of a 

 hunting helmet. A similar ornament from Anogogmut (number 1) 

 represents the flattened image of a seal, with eyes formed by inlaid 

 blue beads. Another of these ornaments (number 4), from the lower 

 Yukon, is a flattened, conventionalized image of a wolf. Along the 



Fio. 45— Tvory ornanients for hunting lielmets (i). 



back and the sides it is ornamented with etched lines and a series of 

 three pairs of concentric circles, each having a wooden peg inserted in 



a central hole. 



SNOW aOGGLES 



To preserve the eyes from the glare of the sun on the snow in the 

 spring and thus prevent snow blindness, goggles are in general use 

 among the Eskimo. They vary considerably, according to locality, but 

 the specimens illustrated give the principal variations in form among 

 those collected. 



Figure 5, plate lxiv, represents a flattened, funnel shape specimen 

 of these goggles, obtained from the lower Yukon. The projecting 

 front extends out both abo^•e and below in a gradual slope to the edges 



