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with a center made from a piece of rawhide; the sides, built up of coils, 
narrow inward to the top, where they are suddenly constricted to a 
rolled rim surrounding the circular opening. The basket from the lower 
Yukon shown in figure 4, plate Lxxtv, has a flat bottom with a cir- 
cular piece of rawhide in the center. A double strand of grass is twisted 
into the woof between each of the coils on the sides, producing a 
doubly ridged surface. The top-has a slight rim around the central 
opening. 
A toy basket from the lower Yukon (figure 5, plate LXxTyv) has the . 
warp varied at intervals with grass cords passed around the surface, 
about a third of an inch apart, in three parallel rows. These cords 
consist of three strands, only one of which is woven into the warp, 
leaving the remainder in relief on the surface. 
Figure 6, plate LXxIv, shows a basket from St Michael. In this 
specimen the coil starts from the center of the flat bottom; the sides 
slope slightly outward and end at the upper edge without being con- 
stricted, forming a dish shape. Another basket from the coast of 
Norton sound has the usual flat bottom; the sides slope slightly out- 
ward, swell around the middle, and then are drawn in again toward 
the top to form a rim around the opening. 
On the lower Yukon coiled baskets are made of spruce roots, which 
form very strong, rigid walls. They vary in form, but all have flat 
bottoms. A basket of this: kind, from that locality (figure 2, plate 
LXXIV), is roughly quadrate in form, with rounded corners. The sides 
are nearly straight, but are constricted abruptly above, forming a 
neck-like rim about an inch high, which surrounds the square opening 
in the top. Another specimen, from Sledge island (figure 3, plate 
LXXIV), is round in shape, with the sides slightly curved and constricted 
above to a slightly flaring tip around the opening. 
The most elaborately finished specimen procured is shown in figure 
12, plate Lxxrv. This was obtained from the lower Yukon district. 
It is round in shape, with slightly curving sides, which are constricted 
abruptly to the neck of a slightly flaring rim. It has a flattened 
conical top, which has two small sinew hinges, and is fastened in front 
with sinew cords; a loop of the same material on the top forms the 
handle. 
A “housewife” of woven grass, obtained on the lower Yukon, is 
woven with open-work similar to the bags which have been described. 
TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION 
SLEDS 
The Alaskan Eskimo of the mainland and en all the islands about 
Bering strait, including St Lawrence island, use dogs and sleds for 
winter traveling. Plate LXxy, from a photograph taken at St Michael, 
represents a Malemut family ready to start on a journey. On the 
