MURDOCH. ] TRINKET BOXES. 325 
Fig. 330) (No. 89402 [1359] also from Utkiavwin), is peculiar from the 
material of which it is made. It is of about the same pattern as the 
common antler boxes, but is made of 
the butt end of the os penis of a large 
walrus, cut off square and hollowed out, 
and has ends of hard whale’s bone. Its 
length is 4:2 inches. No. 89403 {1425} 
Fig. 331 from Sidaru, is made of the hol- 
low butt of a good-sized walrus tusk, 3-2 
inches long. It has a neatly fitted 
wooden bottom, held in with 6 tree- 
nails, two of ivory and four of wood. 
The box has been cracked and split and 
mended with stitches 
of sinew and whale- 
bone. Peculiar con- 
ventional patterns are 
incised on the box and 
cover. A peculiar box is shown in Fig. 332 (No. 56583 
[37] from Utkiavwin). This is of compact white bone, 
with a flat wooden bottom. I do not recollect seeing 
any other boxes of the same sort. 
Fig. 333 (No. 89409 [1372]) is the tip of a walrus tusk 
cut off and hollowed out into a sort of flask, 3-8 inches 
long, closed at the large end by a flat wooden bottom, fastened in with 
treenails and at the small end by a stopper of soft wood. 
The most peculiar box of all, how- 
ever, is Shown in Fig. 334 (No. 56512 
[2| from Utkiavwin), the only speci- 
men of the kind seen. It is 55 
inches long, made of reindeer antler, 
and very neatly carved into a most 
excellent image of a reindeer lying 
on its left side, with the head, which 
has no antlers, turned down and to 
the left. The legs are folded up 
against the belly, the forelegs with 
the hoofs pointing backward, the 
hind hoofs pointing forward. The 
eyes are represented by small sky- 
blue glass beads, and the mouth, 
nostrils, and navel neatly incised, 
the last being particularly well- 
Fic. 333._Little marked. The tips of the hoofs are 
task ofivery- rounded off, which, taken in connec- ''-3%4—Box in shape of 
tion with the attitude and the well marked navel, lead me to believe 
Fic. 331.—Ivory box. 
FiG. 332.—Bone box. 
