B34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. YOu, XXXIV. 
ric al Romaine seems at give a very or pilanetisile axplemation of the forms of 
these specimens. 
The specimens in which the upper end has been so modified as 
to become a double walrus head lead us to another group in which 
the walrus head is repeated a number of times along the sides of 
the tube. Specimens of this kind are represented on Plate XXVITI, 
figs. 2 and 8. In both of these traces of the old upper and lower bor- 
der decoration remain, and fig. 3 also shows the typical oblique spurs 
in pairs in the same position which has been described several times. 
It therefore seems perfectly natural to interpret figs. 2 and 3 as 
the result of repetitions of the animal design, which was first de- 
veloped from the flanges of the old needlecase. Figs. 3 and 5 differ 
from other specimens of their kind in that they have the walrus 
head developed only on one side, while on the opposite 
side the flange 1s suppressed. 
As has been indicated, the geometrical decorations 
of the typical flanged needlecases reappear in many of 
these highly medified specimens. Attention may also 
be called to the forked-line designs which rise from the 
lower border in the usual number in the specimens 
shown in figs. 4, 6 and 7 of this plate. In fig. 7 the 
number of these lines is five. The specimen, however, 
is very crude and quite modern, and the deviation in 
number may be due to inaccuracy in laying out the 
ornament. In fig. 4 there are two forked designs on 
opposite sides, while from the tails of the animals 
down to the lower border runs an alternate-spur band. 
eee ue Between the alternate spur-bands and the long forked 
Eruxoc. Mus., lines there are short forked lines, as indicated in the 
peas No. IV illustration. Only in fig. 8 do we find an important 
modification of the lower end of the needlecase, which 
forms a ring. That in our specimen has been broken. The backs of 
the two needlecases shown in figs. 3 and 5 are somewhat flat. It is 
of interest to compare the line decoration of the latter needlecase 
with the one shown in fig. 11, velar is a simple modification of the 
fundamental type. 
The illustrations, figs. 1 and 2.on Plate X XIX, of two needlecases 
in human form, are not quite as convincing as the specimens them- 
selves; but a comparison of these forms with the other needlecases 
of this series seems to me to suggest with great force that the human 
figures here shown are related to the same type of needlecase that 
we are discussing here. The whole human figure is treated as a tube, 
and it is my opinion that the bulging hips correspond _to the bulging 
middle part of the needlecase, while the arms correspond to the 
flanges, and perhaps more particularly to developments of the flanges 
