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the adjacent Siberian coast women have the sides of their faces (figure 
12) and their arms and breasts covered with finely designed patterns of 
circles and scroll work, sometimes crossed by straight lines. 
At East cape, the women ordinarily have six or eight pairs of lines 
crossing their chins, and on each side of their faces patterns of circles 
Fic. 183—Tattooing on a woman of St Lawrence islind 
and spiral lines; also, two or three vertical, parallel lines crossing their 
temples and extending to the chin. The patterns on the cheeks 
usually cover a space about four inches in width extending from the ear 
toward the nose and from the eye to the lower jaw. 
On the inside of the forearm two long parallel lines usually extend 
from the elbow to the bor- 
der of the palm. These 
are crossed just below the 
elbow by two short lines, 
and the wrist is crossed by 
four lines which sometimes 
completely encircle that part of the arm (figure 14). On the body the 
tattooing covers the breast and sometimes the shoulders and upper 
arms. 
The pattern shown in figure 12 was seen on the face of a little girl of 
St Lawrence island. Figure 13, showing the tattooing on the face of a 
‘1G. 14—Tattooing on a woman's arm, East cape, Siberia. 
Fig. 14—Tatt gs East cape, Sil 
