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loop passes down over a projecting peg on the bottom of the box. 
Following the outline of the box around the bottom, about one-third of 
an inch from the edge is cut a bead in strong relief, and around the 
sides extends a groove. The cover is carved to represent the flattened 
form of a seal with a large, broad head; the hind flippers are cut in 
relief;"the eyes are represented by two small white buttons, and the 
nostrils by two white beads inlaid in the wood. The box is painted 
red, with the exception of the groove around the sides and the incisions 
outlining the flippers and the sides of the seal, which are black. The 
inside of the cover has a curious conventional design painted in black, 
intended as a private mark of the owner. 
Plate x11, 6, is a long oval box from Anogogmut, cut from a single 
piece of wood and divided into two compartments of unequal size by 
leaving a partition at the smaller end when the interior was excavated. 
The cover is neatly fitted and is hinged by two rawhide cords, and the 
Fic. 27—Wooden trinket box (4). 
fastening consists of a loop of rawhide tipped with a small ivory button, 
in which is a hole which fits over a bone peg. A groove is cut around 
the top and the bottom of the box about half an inch from the edge, and 
another passes around the center. The surface is painted red, with the 
exception of the grooves, which are black. In the center of the cover 
is set a round piece of white porcelain, and six smaller pieces are inlaid 
in one of the grooves. 
Figure 27 is a box from Anogogmut made from a single piece of wood, 
flattened oval in outline, slightly convex above and very strongly so on 
its lower surface. It is deeply excavated and has a neatly fitted cover 
held in position by two rawhide hinges and fastened by a loop of cord 
passed over « wooden peg on the lower edge of the box. On the upper 
surface of the cover the figure of a seal is carved in relief, having in the 
center of the back a grotesque semihuman face, also in relief, probably 
intended to represent the shade of the seal. The bottom of the box 
is carved in the form of a larger seal with the flippers in relief and a 
