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mouth and the eyes were pierced into the hollow interior. This orifice 
is closed with ameatly fitted circular piece of wood. 
Figure 8 represents a very well made tray-shape dish from Big lake; 
it is oval in outline and is cut froma single block. Projecting from 
each end are carved figures of grotesque human heads which serve as 
handles; the eyes are represented by white beads, and others are set 
around the grooved upper edge of the dish. The lower surface is not 
painted. A groove around the inside, below the edge, is painted black, 
succeeded by a red border, below which is a narrow black line. The 
inside bottom is ornamented with a large figure of a quadruped with 
a short tail and a curious bird-like head marked with a crest. 
Another kind of shallow tray or dish is made from two pieces of 
wood, the bottom shaped like a truneated cone, the base of which is 
turned up and chamfered to fit in a groove on the inside of the rim. 
In most specimens the narrow, ledge-like rim is made from a thick 
strip of wood, softened by steam, and then bent around with the beveled 
ends overlapping and fastened together with wooden pegs. These are 
in general use on the American coast and on the islands of Bering sea. 
Specimens from St Lawrence island are made in the same way except 
that the overlapping ends are sewed together with whalebone. The 
ledge-like borders are beveled to a central ridge on the inside and are 
plane along their outer surfaces; in the middle on each side these bor- 
dering strips are thickened slightly, in order that in bending them the 
curves shall be thrown out regularly. 
A tray of this kind from Nulukhtulogumut, represented in plate 
XXX, 3, is painted red around the rim and on the inside to cover the 
border. Just inside this is a narrow black line, and on the bottom is 
painted in black a grotesque figure of some mythologic animal having 
upraised hands with pierced palms; along one side of this figure is a 
row of five walruses and on the other five seals. 
Plate xxx, 8, shows a handsomely made tray of similar character, 
also from Nulukhtulogumut. It is about fourteen inches in length and 
has inlaid around the beveled inner edge of the rim a series of eight 
neatly cut, almond-shape pieces of white stone. The rim, both outside 
and in, is painted red, as is the upper edge on the inside. Just below 
this, on the inside, are two parallel, narrow black lines, and painted in 
black on the bottom is a grotesque figure of some mythological animal. 
showing anatomical details. 
Plate xxx11, 2, from the same locality as the last, is similar to it in 
form and has two mythological figures with heads like reindeer painted 
in black on the inside. 
‘Specimen number 45494, from Ikogmut (Mission), is a large tray 
measuring about 28 inches in length and 18 inches in width. It is 
painted red around the border, and hes two parallel black lines inside. 
On the bottom appears an alligator-like coiled figure, inside of which 
a mythologic animal is painted in black. 
