TRINKET BOXES. 



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(No. Sy-lO.") [i:5;5,"")l, from rtkiavwiu) or figures of nu-u and anim; 

 Fig. ;J2y6- (Mo. oGOLJ |41 ] from the same village). The toinier i 

 box, 4-7 inches long, and has the wooden ends both shouldert 

 tightly. The cover is worked witli a string. 



No.'ofiOir. [41 1 on tin- other hand is very old, and has lost it 

 The wooden bottom is shouldered and liehl in with treenails. ' 

 face is elaborately ornauuMded with incised and blackened 

 Ifc is divided by longitudinal lines into four nearly e(iual ])a 

 which the figures are disjxised as follows (the animals all bein 

 sented as staiuling on the longitudinal lines, and facing tow 

 right, that is, toward tin- .ijien .-nd of the box): On the first p 

 4 reindeer, alternately a buck and a (hie. followed by a imm in 

 and over his head t\v<. small -'circles and dots," one above tli 



