No. 1616. A STUDY OF ALASKAN NEEDLECASES—BOAS. 329 
lower border design of the flange is elaborated into a single line with 
double oblique spurs also. On both sides of the needlecase, and sur- 
rounded by the hne running downward along the lower border of the 
flange and on the body of the tube, is a design of what seems to be a 
human being with a caribou head, which stands on a line extending 
across the side of the needlecase, just over two knobs, the single knob 
on each side being doubled in this case. On the lowest point of the 
line surrounding the concave face stands a quadruped with long body 
and bent legs. Another type of elaboration and modification of the 
design is shown in Plate X XIV, fig. 1, where the lines with pairs of 
oblique spurs have also been made use of. The needlecases illustrated 
on Plate XXIV, figs. 3, 4, 6, are so much worn down that the designs 
have become very indistinct; but in these specimens, as well as in the 
one shown on the same plate, fig. 5, the middle concave face was never 
well marked. In the last-named specimen the border lines of the 
flanges are continued across the whole needlecase (compare Plate 
XXIII, fig. 7). While these specimens resemble in general shape the 
characteristic designs, the forms are rounded off, and have lost many 
of their decorative traits. On the reverse side of the specimen shown 
in Plate XXIV, fig. 4, a double line with oblique spurs running out- 
ward from the lines is shown, but not in the middle of the needlecase. 
Its position is so irregular that it can not be compared with the deco- 
rations of the specimens heretofore described. It will be observed that 
the same specimen has quite an irregular line decoration on the 
flanges. Plate XXIV, fig. 7, is a roughly finished specimen of the 
' usual type. The concave face is hollowed out deeply, and the flanges 
are set off more markedly than in the majority of specimens. The 
knobs have been moved very far downward. This specimen seems to 
be modern and very roughly finished. Plate X XIV, fig. 8, also seems 
to be a modern specimen, in which the vertical border lines of the 
concave face have been moved toward the border of the flange, 
and where the upper border is replaced by an alternate-spur band. 
In this specimen the knobs are also moved very far downward. The 
specimen shown in fig. 9, Plate XXIV, resembles in many respects 
the one shown in fig. 7 of the same plate, particularly in the depth of 
the concave faces and in the sharp angle formed by the flanges where 
they are set off from the body of the tube. 
Plate X XV, fig. 1, represents a specimen which is also presumably 
quite modern, and shows material deviations from the type. Here, 
instead of the middle concave face, we have a narrow flat surface 
with a single vertical forked line, the occurrence of which is obviously 
a survival of the older concave field with its two-forked border lines. 
On the sides of this needlecase, just under the flanges, is also a verti- 
cal forked line, which extends a little lower than the medial forked 
line. ‘The knobs on the sides are very indistinct and marked only 
