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and a double-end cord for tying it down. A split in the cover has 
been neatly mended by means of thin strips of whalebone passed 
through holes. pierced on opposite sides. A small scalloped rod of 
ivory forms a handle to the cover, held in place by a loop of rawhide 
passed through two holes at each end into corresponding holes in the 
cover and the ends knotted inside. 
Plate XL, 10, represents a box from Sfugunugumut, oval in shape, 
rather truncated at the smaller end and beveled toward the center. 
One end is carried upward in the form of a neck, terminating in a gro- 
tesque human head, having a prominent nose and an incised crescent- 
shape mouth with two pieces of white crockery inlaid at the corners to 
represent labrets; the other end has a pair of seal’s flippers, the entire 
design being intended to represent a mythical being, with the body of 
a seal and a human head. It is painted in a bluish tint, except the 
head, which is black, and the incised lines that outline the flippers, 
which are red. The cover is slightly convex above and coneayve below, 
with a broad groove cut in its upper surface; it is hinged by two raw- 
hide cords, and a double-end cord is fastened in two places on the 
side and passed twice around the box and tied to hold the cover in 
place and to fasten it. 
Another box (number 36242) from Sfugunugumut is similar in outline 
to the latter, except that it lacks the head, and, like the preceding, the 
body of the box is fashioned from a single piece of wood. The exterior 
is painted a dull red and has three grooves extending around it, which 
are colored black, and set in them at regular intervals are broad-head 
pegs of ivory, which are ornamented with a circle and dot. The interior 
of the box is divided into two compartments, unequal in size; the 
smaller, conical in shape, has been used for storing fragments of red 
ocher and other substances used as paints. The cover is hinged with 
rawhide and is fastened by a loop of rawhide which passes over a peg 
in front of the box. On the top of the cover is painted in black the 
figure of a curious mythical creature, so conventionalized in outline 
that it is difficult to identify it. From marks on the inside of the cover 
it has evidently been used in cutting tobacco. 
Plate XLII, 4, from Askinuk, is a box, suboval in shape, flattened 
above and below and truncated at each end, cut from a single piece 
of wood. The interior is neatly excavated to about an inch in depth, 
leaving a ledge crossing from side to side about an inch inward from 
eachend. The sides of the box are painted biack while the top and the 
bottom are of a bluish tint. On each of the four surfaces a shallow 
groove extends from end to end; on the sides they are of equal width, 
but on the top and the bottom they are narrow in the middle, broad- 
ening gradually toward each end. These grooves are paintedred. The 
cover is slightly convex without and concave within. On its inner sur- 
face are painted in red and black a number of rude figures representing 
two sledges, men, and various beasts, among the most conspicuous of 
which are wolves and reindeer. 
