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of a single broad slit, the upper border slightly overhaugiug the lower. 

 They have a rounded notch for fitting over the nose, and are held in 

 position by a cord which passes over the back of the head. A speci- 

 men from Point Hope, shown in plate LXiv, 11, is somewhat similar to 

 the preceding, except that the slit is smaller and the upper front bor- 

 der projects farther beyond the lower. 



Another pair from the Lower Yukon (plate Lxiv, 4) have two narrow 

 slits divided in the middle by a septum. A notch is cut on the inner 

 surface for the nose, and the front is carved in slight relief to represent 

 a human face, with the nose between the eye slits. The forehead pro- 

 jects at the eyebrows to form a visor-like edge. The inside and top of 

 the goggles are painted black and the front red. 



A pair from Norton sound (figure 0, plate lxiv) have two slits, a 

 notch for the nose resting against a strong septum in the middle, and 

 a visor-like projection along the top in front. The goggles from Sabot- 

 nisky (figure 13, plate lxiv) have a notcli for the nose and two flat- 

 tened eye slits divided by a rudely made septum. The top is grooved 

 to represent hair, and a nose is shown between the slits, giving them 

 a mask-like appearance. They are painted red in front, but are not 

 colored behind. 



Figure 8, plate lxiv, represents spectacle-shape goggles from Cape 

 Darby, with two narrow eye slits and a visor-like projection in front. 

 There is a deep groove for the nose and the outline is narrowed in the 

 middle, so that the eyepieces are suboval in shape. 



Another pair (figure 1, plate lxiv), from Norton bay, are still more 

 like spectacles than the preceding, being greatly narrowed in the mid- 

 dle between the two slits for the eyes. The front slopes gently to the 

 borders of the slits and there is no visor. Another example of neatly 

 made goggles (figure 9, plate lxiv), also obtained at Norton bay, are 

 narrowed in the middle with two narrow slits and a visor in front. 

 The upper borders of the eyepieces are deeply notched to i)ermit the 

 circulation of air about the eyes. Tbe pair shown in figure 3, plate lxiv, 

 are also from Norton bay. Thej^ consist of two suboval eyepieces, held 

 together by two sinew cords which are strung with beads. Each of 

 these eyepieces has a long, narrow eye slit. 



Figure 14, plate lxiv, represents spectacle- shape goggles from 

 Kushunuk; they are fashioned to extend forward, surrounding the 

 large, oval eyeholes in a flattened, tubular form ; the insides of the eye- 

 holes are painted black, as is the upper portion of the outside, with the 

 exception of the borders of the eyeholes which are red. 



A specimen from St Lawrence island, figure 12, plate lxiv, consists 

 of a trough shape piece of wood, concave within and convex on the 

 outside; it is somewhat crescentic in form, with a notch on the lower 

 side for the nose; the eyeholes are straight within against the wooden 

 crossbar or septum which divides them, and their outer edges are oval; 

 they are large, and without any arrangement for shading them. 



