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It is bound on by a strip of rawhide, which is passed through two holes 
on one side and one upon the other. 
Figure 19, plate Lx1b, illustrates a bone wrist-guard from Kowak 
river, with a single hole on one side for the attachment of acord. Wrist- 
guards are all made crescentic in cross section, in order to fit the curve 
of the wrist. 
BOXES FOR ARROW- AND SPEAR-POINTS 
The Eskimo store and carry the thin, flat points for arrows, spears, 
and lances in small wooden boxes, in the manufacture of which they 
display considerable ingenuity. 
A box of this kind (number 36248), from Kushunuk, is flattened and 
square in outline and made from a single piece of wood; the excavated 
interior is shallow; it is grooved just below the upper edge to receive 
the sliding cover, which has a notch on the top near one end for-a 
thumb-rest in drawing it out. On two corners of the box a rawhide 
loop is fastened for hanging it to the belt or for attaching it to any other 
object. 
Figure 10, plate Lx11, is a long, flattened box from Cape Nome. It 
is less than an ineh in height, is 74 inches long, and has a sliding 
cover. The sides and top are ornamented with a variety of incised 
cross-line patterns, 
Figure 5, plate Lx, is a long, thin box from Nunivak island, 
slightly convex above and below, pointed oval at one end and truncated 
at the other. It has a long, narrow cover, fitting like a stopper and 
resting at each end on a sunken ledge, and a thumb-piece for raising it 
projects at the rear. On the upper side of the front end of the box are 
incised the outlines of the mouth, nostrils, and eyes of some animal. 
Figure 1, plate Lx11, from Pikmiktalik, is a rudely oval box, grooved 
around the sides and along the bottom, but otherwise is not ornamented. 
Iigure 4, plate LX11, represents a box, from Cape Nome, fashioned in 
the form of a fish known as the losh. The eyes are formed by small 
ivory pegs with the centers excavated for the pupils; the gill openings 
are narked by incised crescentic lines; the mouth is incised, and the 
tail is represented as doubled and lying forward midway along the 
body. It has a long, oval, stopper-like cover resting on a sunken ledge 
at each end. 
Figure 6, plate LXII, shows a box, from Askinuk, in the shape of a 
seal. The eyes and the mouth are incised and the front flippers are 
in relief; the cover is a long-pointed oval in outline and fits into the 
side, thus differing from the ordinary method of fitting it either in the 
upper or the under surface. 
Figure 3, plate LX11, illustrates a box, from Norton sound, represent- 
ing a seal in flattened outline. The head is well made, the eyes and 
nostrils being formed by inlaid pieces of ivory. The cover represents 
another seal, the projecting head and neck forming the thumb-piece 
for raising it. The eyes and the nostrils are marked by ivory pegs. 
