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from cedar wood and ornamented with atotemic design. Figure lie is 

 a stone comb in this same collection. 



Fig. lie. 

 Bone Comb. 



(Tlingit. Emmons Collection. ) 



Fig. lid. 

 Wooden Comb. 



(Tlingit. Emmons Collection. ) 



(Tlingit. Emmons Collection. ) 



ORNAMENTS. 



With the practice of mutilations comes the adornment of the person 

 with ornaments fashioned from a great variety of materials. It seems 

 that, not content with the facilities offered naturally forsecuring these 

 to the person, mutilations were often practiced solely to enable the 

 wearer to attach ornaments to the ear, lip, nose, or cheek. 



Labrets or Up ornaments. — These are made of stone, wood, bone, shell, 

 ivory, silver or copper, sometimes of one material only, sometimes of a 

 combination of several. In form they vary from a pulley-shaped disc 

 to a collar button, and in size from 4 inches to a small cylinder of 

 one-eighth inch iu diameter. The labret sbowo in Plates xlix aud 



