186 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
end. Each ring is made by doubling a long piece of twine so that the 
two parts are equal, passing one end through the bight and knotting it 
to the other. The box and cover seem to have been painted inside and 
out with red ocher. On the outside this is mostly faded and worn off 
and covered with dirt, but inside it has turned a dark brown. Fig. 164) 
(No. 89858 [1319], from Utkiavwin,) is a similar box, 21-1 inches long. 
The cover is held on by a string passing over little hooked ivory studs 
close to the edge of the box. There were originally five of these studs, 
two at each end and one in the middle of one side. The string started 
from one of these studs at the pointed end. This stud is broken and 
the string fastened into a hole close to it. To fasten on the cover the 
string was carried over and hooked under the opposite stud, then 
crossed over the cover to the middle stud, then across to the end stud 
on the other side, and the loop on the end hooked onto the last stud. 
No. 89859 [1318] is a smaller box (19 inches long) of the same pat- 
tern, with only four studs. The cover has three large blue glass beads, 
Fia. 165.—Large wooden tool boxes. 
like those used for labrets, inlaid in a line along the middle. No. 89858 
[1144], from Utkiavwin, is the shape of the type, but has a thicker 
cover and six stud holes in the margin, No. 89861 [1151], Fig. 165a, 
from the same place, is shaped something like a violin case, 22-2 inches 
long. The cover has been split and “stitched” together with whale- 
bone, and a crack in the broader end of the box has been neatly mended 
by pegging on, with nine little wooden treenails, a strap of reindeer 
antler of the same width as the edge and following the curve of its 
outline. There are four studs, two at each end. The string is made 
fast to one at the smaller end, carried over to the opposite one, then 
crossed to the opposite stud at the other end and back under the last 
one, a bight of the end being tucked under the string between the two 
last-mentioned studs. The string is made of sinew braid, rope-yarns, 
and a long piece of seal thong. It was probably at first all of sinew 
