56 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT (ETH. ANN. 18 
from the same locality represents a grotesque human face with tufts 
tied on each side to represent a woman’s braided hair, while another 
(plate xxv, 17), obtained also at the same place, represents the features 
of a seal. 
The only metal earrings obtained were collected on the lower Yukon. 
They are made of copper, of the usual round style worn by women, with 
concentri¢ circles on the face and projecting knobs at the corners. 
A pair of earrings (plate xxrv, 9), obtained at St Michael by Mr L, M. 
Turner, show smooth, disk-like faces three-eighths of an inch in diam- 
eter, back of which project for about a quarter of an inch rounded 
ivory pins extending downward three-quarters of an inch to roughly 
truncated tips pierced for the reception of the ends of a string of beads. 
These are the only earrings of this description that were seen. 
A pair from Cape Vancouver (plate xxiv, 12) are long, narrow, and 
ovalin shape. They are an inch long, by three-eighths of an inch wide, 
and taper down to a narrow, flattened point pierced as usual for attach- 
ing a string of beads. Extending lengthwise along the median line of 
the faces is a ridge from which the surface is beveled away on both 
sides. On this doubly beveled surface is represented, by means of 
incised lines and dots, a grotesque human face with labret holes below 
the corners of the mouth, 
Another pair, from Nulukhtulogumut (plate xxry, 10), are broadly 
oval in outline with a grotesque human face on the front; they measure 
seven-eighths of an inch long by nearly three-quarters of an inch wide. 
Plate xxv, 9, shows a pair from Chalitmut, three quarters of an inch 
long by half an inch wide, having an oval outline and a slightly con- 
vex face. An incised line extends vertically through the center, with 
two pairs of beveled lines extending thence diagonally downward to 
the border on each side. In the three spaces thus made along each 
side of the surface are three small circles and dots. From the lower 
ends of these rings hang two pendants of beads two and one-half inches 
in length, and a string of beads twelve inches in length connects them 
below the chin. 
A pair of rounded earrings from Sfugunugumut (plate xxv, 7) are 
about seven-eighths of an inch in diameter and have knob-like projec- 
tions on four corners, each of the latter having an incised dot in the 
center. The faces are marked by two concentric circles, with a hole in 
the center, which is plugged with wood. A hole in the lower edge of 
these rings serves to attach the upper edge of a band over four inches 
in length, made of seven strings of beads, which are spaced near the 
upper end by a flattened ivory rod an inch and a half long, pierced 
with a hole for each string. Near the lower end they are held in place 
by a similar strip made from a thick piece of sealskin. 
On the islands as well as on both shores of Bering strait, the women 
frequently wear pendent from their earrings, in place of beads, strings 
of the little orauge-color horny sheaths from the angle of the bil! of 
