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to three faces on the other; it is pierced with holes, in pairs, to receive 
the lashings, with which it is bound on the back of a helmet to hold the 
bent ends of the wood in position. A walrus head, cut from ivory, from 
Kushunuk (Museum number 38719), is for ornamenting the front of a 
hunting helmet. A similar ornament from Anogogmut (number 1) 
represents the flattened image of a seal, with eyes formed by inlaid 
blue beads. Another of these ornaments (number 4), from the lower 
Yukon, is a flattened, conventionalized image of a wolf. Along the 
Fic. 45—Ivory ornaments for hunting helmets (3). 
back and the sides it is ornamented with etched lines and a series of 
three pairs of concentric circles, each having a wooden peg inserted in 
a central hole. 
SNOW GOGGLES 
To preserve the eyes from the glare of the sun on the snow in the 
spring and thus prevent snow blindness, goggles are in general use 
among the Eskimo. They vary considerably, according to locality, but 
the specimens illustrated give the principal variations in form among 
those collected. 
Figure 5, plate LXIv, represents a flattened, funnel shape specimen 
of these goggles, obtained from the lower Yukon. The projecting 
front extends out both above and below in a gradual slope to the edges 
