324 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. VOL, XXXIV.’ 
fig. 5, two of these lines are absent, because their space is occupied 
by a long alternate-spur band which runs down the whole side of 
the needlecase. In the specimen shown in Plate XXV, fig. 6, one 
of them is absent, probably because the ivory at the 
place where it would be shows the soft inner part of 
the tusk, and has besides other defects. In Plate 
XXV, fig. 3, there is one of these lines on each side 
of the needlecase. In one specimen in the Royal 
Ethnographical Museum in Berlin the number of 
these lines is more than four (fig. 1). 
A partial doubling of the spur band may be ob- 
served on Plate X XII, fig. 2; Plate X XIII, fig. 11; 
Plate X XV, figs. 3, 5, 7. 
The features here enumerated comprise those of 
i the most generalized type of these needlecases. They 
MAARANY may be briefly summed up as (1) a tube slightly 
ees bulging in the middle, (2) flanges at the upper end, 
Mus. Beruy. No. (3) small knobs under the flanges, (4) a long con- 
pig © cave face at the upper’end of the tube, (5) long 
parallel lines with small forks at their lower ends setting off the 
concave face, (6) border de- 
signs consisting of lines at 
the upper and lower ends of 
the flanges and on the con- 
cave face, and (7) an alter- 
nate-spur band at the lower 
end of the tube. 
In order to understand 
the significance of this pe- 
culiar type of needlecase, 
we must bear in mind that 
the two design elements 
which are most character- 
istic of this specimen— 
namely, the line design 
with short branches and 
the alternate-spur design— 
are characteristic Eskimo 
motives over the greater 
part of the Arctic coast. 
The alternate-spur band de- 
sign has been found by 
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PANVINANAWA\ 
VANVANUAWAN\IA 
DOAUOTLILGLDAN ATUL 
VAVAVAVINAY 
Fig. 2.—a, IvoRY ATTACHMENT TO LINE. WEST COAST 
OF HupDsSON BAY (AMER. Mus. NAT. HIsT. NO. 5$%5); 
b, CREASER, IGLULIK (AMER. Mus. Nat. Hist. No. <$23). 
FrRoM Boas, ESKIMO OF BAFFIN LAND AND HUDSON 
Bay (BULLETIN AMER. Mus. NAT. HIST., XV, PP. 458, 
459); c, DESIGN OF NEEDLECASE, KING WILLIAMS LAND 
(No. 10405 U.S. N.M.). 
me on a number of very old specimens from Southampton Island 
and Lyons Inlet, collected by Capt. G. Comer, which are repro- 
duced here in fig. 2, a and ¢. In the same region the forked-line 
