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along their borders, or striped with narrow bands of skin or rows of 
heavy stitching. 
Figure 148 shows a wristlet from Ikogmut, on the lower Yukon, used 
in these dances. It is made of tanned sealskin bordered by a narrow 
strip with the hair left on. On the rest of the surface there is a series 
of nine narrow alternating strips of yellowish-white and reddish-brown 
tanned sealskin, most of which have along their length a row of stripes 
of the alternating dark and white patterns formed by sewing in white 
reindeer hairs with sinew thread. At equal intervals in the midst of 
other bands are two broader strips of the reddish-brown skin, having 
reindeer hairs crossing their surface and gathered in the middle by the 
sinew stitching, so that a continuous series of X-shape figures are 
formed around the entire length of the 
wristlet. 1 
Figure 149, from Sabotnisky, on the 
lower Yukon, is an armlet worn by men on 
each arm, between the elbow and shoulder, 
during the bladder festival. It consists 
of a long, rounded, tapering pad made of 
some soft material, covered with fish-skin, 
and having the two ends provided with a 
rawhide cord for tying it about the arm. 
This long pad is crossed diagonally by two 
pairs of narrow strips of skin sewed to its 
surface. One of these strips is black and 
made of the skin from the foot of some 
waterfowl, probably a goose or swan. 
The other strip is colored a dingy reddish 
brown and was taken from some fish. 
The pairs of strips mentioned extend 
from the inside, near the point of the pad, 
cross over its outer portion, and turn under 
toward the opposite point again, so that the pairs cross on the outer side 
near the middle. Inserted in the middle of the pad and projecting back 
from it, so as to stand out a little from the arm when worn, is a wooden 
rod having three wooden vanes lashed at each end along its length, to 
represent the feather vanes used for feathering the butt of an arrow, 
which this attachment is intended to represent. 
The central shaft and one of these wooden vanes are painted red, the 
other two are dull green. The red vane is crossed by a series of diag- 
onally tapering black lines, broadest along the outer edge, the other 
two are crossed by a series of black lines extending diagonally from 
the border of the inner edge. : 
At Unalakit, on the shore of Norton sound, I obtained a pair of 
ornamented trunks (number 48799) used in dances by the Malemut. 
They measure about 15 inches in length and extend from the hip to 
Fic. 149—Armlet worn in dances (4). 
