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braid with the ends knotted together and the bight looped into the eye. 
A large sky-blue glass bead is slipped on over both parts of the lanyard 
and pushed up close to the loop. Fig. 163a (No. 89621 [757], from 
Utkiavwin) is very short and broad (3-6 inches by 0-6), is chamfered at 
both ends, and has the ornamental grooves at the eye. The material is 
a hard, opaque, bluish gray stone, veined with black. 
A whetstone of similar material was brought by Lieut. Stoney from 
Kotzebue Sound. The long lanyard is of sinew braid. Fig. 163b (No. 
89622 [951], also from Utkiavwin) is a very small; slender whetstone, 
3°3 inches long, of dark olive green semitranslucent jade, polished. The 
tip is not chamfered, but tapers toa blunt point. It has the ornamental 
grooves at the eye. These are undoubtedly the “stones for making 
: whetstones, or these ready-made” referred to by Dr. Simpson 
(Op. cit., p. 266) as brought by the Nunatafimiun from the people of 
Fia. 164.—Wooden tool boxes. 
the “ Ko-wak River.” A few such whetstones have been collected on 
other parts of the northwest coast as far south as the northern shore 
of Norton Sound. The broken whetstone mentioned above is of a 
beautiful bluish green translucent jade. Bits of stone are also used for 
whetstones, such as No. 89786 [1004/], which belong in It’/bw’ga’s tool 
bag. They are two rough, oblong bits of hard dark gray slate, appar- 
ently split off a flat, weathered surface. 
Tool boxes and bags.—We collected six specimens of a peculiarly 
shaped long, narrow box, carved from a single block of wood, which we 
were informed were formerly used for holding tools. They have gone 
out of fashion at the present day, and there are but few of them left. 
No. 89860 [1152], Fig. 164a, represents the typical shape of this box. 
It is carved from a single block of pine. The cover is slightly hollowed 
on the under side and is held on by two double rings of twine (one of 
seal twine and the other of sinew braid), large enough to slip over the 
