NELSON] LABRETS 47 
Similar labrets are shown in plate xx, 19, 20, from Sledge island, 
which are from an inch to an inch and a quarter along the beveled 
inner flange, and five-eighths of an inch across their outer faces; these 
are made of hard stone, mottled black and white. Figure 9 shows a 
pair of lignite labrets worn by a King island man. 
The specimen shown in plate Xx, 9, was obtained on King island in 
Bering strait. The base is the ordinary hat-shape labret of walrus ivory, 
having a slot cut in its outer face in which is fitted a well modeled 
piece of serpentine two inches in length and three-fourths of an inch in 
breadth, representing the tail of a right whale, and is fastened in 
place by means of a wooden pin which passes through a hole drilled 
across the top of the labret and through a corresponding hole in the 
Fic. 9—King island man with labrets of lignite. 
border of the piece of serpentine inserted in the slot. Its similarity 
of shape to the specimen (plate x x11, 10) from Nunivak island is curious, 
and probably represents an ancient and widely spread form that is now 
rare. A labret obtained on Nunivak island by Doctor Dall (plate x x11, 
11) is elaborate in form, having a hat-shape ivory base with six short 
strings of beads forming the outer part, which are held in position by 
flat ivory spacers. Another style (plate xxi, 12) from the same locality 
has an ivory base with a lead tip in the form of a truncated cone. 
In the neighborhood of Bering strait and Hotham inlet, large, flat 
labrets made of jadite were not uncommon. The beautiful specimen 
(plate xx11, 15) obtained in Hotham inlet by Mr Woolfe measures oneand 
seven-eighth inches by an inch and a quarter on its outer surface. It 
has an oval button on the inside an inch and a half in width; the out- 
