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with open mouths and joined at the necks. A hole passes laterally 
through the bases of the necks for the cord; the heads are divided by 
a deep, broad incision, separating them from each other at their bases. 
Another fastener from Cape Nome (figure 17) is a fine piece of com- 
posite carving. Held in one position it represents the head of a white 
bear; turned with the other surface upward it represents a seal, the ears 
of the bear serving in that case for the fore-flippers of the latter animal, 
while a ridge along both sides of the posterior portion of the seal’s 
body marks the position of its hind flippers and serves to outline the 
lower jaws of the bear. This object can also be used as a cord handle. 
Plate xxvit, 13, from Point Hope, is an excellent representation of 
the skull of a walrus an inch and a half in length. Figure 21 of the 
same plate represents a fastener from Askinuk, in the form of a seven- 
fingered human hand. 
Another style of button or belt fastener is made from a rounded, 
oval, or quadrangular flattened piece of ivory or bone, pierced through 
the center with a single hole for the accommodation of the belt cord. 
The following fasteners are also illustrated in plate XXVII: 
Figure 19, from the lower Yukon, 
is a thin, square piece of ivory, 
pierced in the center by a hole for 
the cord; its border is surrounded 
by a series of etched lines, forming 
a wave pattern; extending toward 
the center from each corner are 
etched the tridentate marks repre- 
senting the raven totem. 
Figure 20 is from Cape Vancou- 
ver. It has a circular face, with four projecting knobs at the corners, 
and etched upon the front are seven concentric circles; the knobs at 
the corners are pierced and the holes are plugged with wood; two 
circular lines surround the holes. 
Figure 22, from Cape Prince of Wales, is a round, convex-face piece 
of ivory, with the surface neatly carved in relief with a wave pattern 
alternating with rings; a large ear-like projection on the back is 
pierced for the cord. 
Figure 18, from Anogogmut, is an inch and a quarter long, rounded 
above and square below, with a slightly oval front, on which, in low 
relief, is a grotesque human face. The usual ear-like ring on the back 
serves for attaching the cord. 
Figure 17, from Nunivak island, is an inch and three-eighths long 
and an inch and a quarter wide. It is excavated at the back, and on 
the front has a well-made representation of human features, with the 
mouth and the eyes pierced, and with lines representing snow goggles 
across the eyes; on the back is a strong ear for attaching the cord. 
Figure 24, from Cape Vancouver, represents the head of a salmon; 
Fic, 17—Ivory belt fastener. 
