NELSON] WOMEN’S WORKBOXES 99 
set, is a Semihuman face carved in relief; it has ivory labrets at each 
corner of the mouth, and inlaid pieces of ivory represent the eyes. 
Figure 9 of the plate shows a box, from Sabotnisky, cut from a single 
piece of wood, flattened and slightly oval in outline, with truncated 
ends. The form of a salmon is carved in relief on both the top and the 
bottom, and a groove extends along the sides. The cover is attached 
in the usual manner by rawhide hinges, and a cord is provided for 
fastening it in front. 
Another box from Sfugunugumut (number 36245) is made from a 
single piece of wood, oval in outline, truncated at one end, with a sunken 
ledge around the upper edge to receive the cover, which is slightly 
convex and projects upward at one end to form a thumb-piece for rais- 
ingit. This projection is carved in the form of a cormorant’s head, the 
eyes being represented by incised circles. 
Figure 8, plate xLu, from Konigunugumut, is a long, quadrate, 
wooden box, the top, bottom, and sides of which are made from sepa- 
rate pieces, the edges of the cover and the bottom being beveled. It is 
fastened together with wooden pegs, and the cover is attached as usual 
by rawhide hinges and fastened by a loop passing down over a project- 
ing peg in front. The bottom of the box is painted black around the 
edges and crossed by black bars; the ends of the top and sides are 
painted red, and a broad, black band extends around the middle. 
Figure 2, plate xLu, from St Lawrence island, is a workbox, circular 
in form, made by bending a thin piece of spruce, three inches wide, so 
that the ends overlap, and are sewed together with Strips of whalebone 
passed through slits pierced in both thicknesses of the beveled ends. 
The top and the bottom are truncated cones in shape, chamfered and 
fitted into grooves cut around the inner edges of the sides. A round 
hole in the top serves for putting in and taking out small objects. 
Figure 1, plate xxir, from Sledge island, is a box 4 inches high and 
44 inches square, made of thin pieces of spruce smoothly finished. The 
bottom is attached by wooden pegs;, the sides are neatly mortised 
together. The cover is hinged by two pieces of rawhide and is fast- 
ened in front by a double-end string passing through a rawhide loop 
pendent from the cover. The handle on the cover consists of two 
pieces of rawhide cord tied together in the middle, the ends passed 
through holes and knotted inside, forming a loop about an inch and a 
halfin length. The box is grooved around the top and the sides in 
parallel lines; the outer grooves, painted black, are broad and shallow, 
while those on the inside are narrower and red in color both on the cover 
and sides. On the center of the cover is a pointed oval groove, black 
in color. The bottom of the box and a broad band around the sides are 
not painted. 
A circular box, from Sledge island (number 45093), is seven inches 
high and over nine inches in diameter, made from a strip of spruce 
bent until the beveled edges overlap, and sewed together with a double 
