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The implement is a toggle belonging to a buckle, or 

 belonging in some other way to a garment. The toggle is 

 perhaps best conceived on the front of a woman's frock (anoraq), 

 ■which is gathered up in front at the breast. Only a few details 

 as to these toggles among the western Eskimo 

 are given in the standard works on them^). 



Inv. Amd. 102 (Fig. 66), from Cape Borlase 

 Warren, is the fragment of a kind of buckle of 

 yellowish ivory (4*2 cm by 2'8cm); fairly thick, 

 flat on both sides, with rounded edges; the lower 

 edge double as thick as the upper. In both the 

 broken off ends are seen the remains of several 



Fig. 66. Ivory 

 button belong- 



holes; those at the broadest end are of the kind '"^ *^ ^ '^'^^' 



trace. С Bor- 

 produced by sawing off the bone with drills, lase Warren. -/з. 



which indicates that an attempt has been made 

 to modify the original form of the implement. The frag- 

 ment of the hole at the thinner end, which is connected by 

 shallow grooves on both side surfaces with the well-preserved 

 central aperture, taken in conjunction with the whole form of 

 the implement, shows that the object must be one of the bone 

 holders [orsseq) which attach the ends of the 

 dog-traces to the cross-line of the sledge. 



Inv. Amd. 103 (Fig. 67), from Cape Bor- 

 lase Warren. A short ivory ring, or short 

 broad bone pipe (of a hollow bone), 2 cm high; 

 the diameter of tbe cross section is 1*5 cm to 

 2 cm. Round the lower part has been made 

 by means of borings a broad slit running all 

 the way round (partially broken off). The upper edge of the 

 pipe also bears traces of the borings whereby the bone has been 

 sawn off. The slit below is produced by two converging rows 

 of holes bored closely above and below each other, the boring 



Fig. 67. Ferrule of 



bone. С Borlase 



Warren. ^\\. 



M Perhaps a similar tocgle to that figured in Boas II, 20, fig. 16 h. 



