188 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
the hair out, pieced across the middle. The sides and ends are made of 
the skins of four wolverine heads, without the lower jaw, cut off at the 
nape and spread out and sewed together side by side with the hair out- 
ward and noses up. One head comes on each end of the bag and one 
on each side, and the spaces between the noses are filled out with gus- 
sets of deerskin and wolverine skin. A narrow strip of the latter is 
sewed round the mouth of the bag. The handle is of walrus ivory, 144 
inches long and about one-half inch square. There is a vertical hole 
through it one-half inch from each end, and at one end also a trans- 
verse hole between this and the tip. One end of the thong which 
fastens the handle to the bag is drawn through this hole and cut off 
close to the surface. The other end is brought over the handle and 
down through the vertical hole and made fast with two half-hitches into 
a hole through the septum of the nose of the head at one end of the bag. 
The other end of the handle is fastened to the opposite nose in the same 
way, but the thong is secured in the hole by a simple knot in the end 
above. On one side of the handle is an unfinished incised pattern. 
Fig. 167.—Tool bag of wolverine skin. 
Fig. 167, No. 89776 [1004], is a similar bag, made of four wolverine 
heads with the lower jaws attached. The bottom is of stout leather 
without hair. The mouth is tied up by a bit of thong passed through 
the nostrils of the two side heads so that it can spread open only 
about 13 inches. The handle is broad and flat, made of walrus ivory, 
and ornamented with an incised border on top. One end is broken and 
pieced out with reindeer antler secured by a clumsy “fishing” of seal 
twine, which is passed through holes in the two parts. The pieces seem 
to have been riveted together as in the drill bow, No. 89777 [1004] (Fig. 
154), which belongs to this bag. There is a rivet still sticking in the 
antler. It is possible that the ivory may have broken in the process of 
riveting the two together. The handle has two vertical holes at each 
end for the thong, by which it is fastened to the end noses, both in the 
