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represent a needlecase, which on one side shows the typical form of 
the flanged specimens, while on the opposite side the head, neck, and 
forepaws of an animal are set off. 
Another geometrical development of the ordinary type is repre- 
sented in fig. 13. In this specimen the general outline of the flanged 
tube is readily recognized, but all the other characteristic features 
have disappeared. 
On Plate XXX five specimens are illustrated whose relation to the 
flanged type is very doubtful. The knobs in fig. 1 of this plate, which 
are doubled in the axial direction and appear on four sides of the 
tube, are analogous to those shown in fig. 6 of Plate X XIX; and these 
two types are undoubtedly closely related. Attention may be called 
to the awl-like implement illustrated in fig. 14, which shows the 
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Fig. 13.—NEEDLE- Fig. 14.—A WL. Fig. 15.—NEEDLECASE Fie. 16.—NEEDLECASE 
CASE (PEABODY (No. 4388387) (ROYAL ETHNOG. (ROYAL ETHNOG. 
Mus. AMER. UNALAK- Mus., BERLIN, No. 1V Mus., BERLIN, No. IV 
ARCH., CAM- LEET, Nor- A 3986). 3985). 
BRIDGE, MASS., TON ISLAND. 
No. 146.) E. W. NEL- 
SON. 
same four knobs here described, and which therefore in its origin 
may well be related to the decorative designs on the needlecases. The 
animal types on Plate XXX, figs. 2-6 and in fig. 15, diverge so much 
from the flanged type that their relationship seems very doubtful. 
Still I can not free myself from the impression of a certain influence 
of the flanged types upon these forms also. This becomes apparent 
by a comparison of the needlecase shown in fig. 16 with the animal 
types here discussed. It is quite evident that this specimen has its 
affiliations both with the animal types and the walrus-head types 
shown on Plate XXVII. It is, however, also possible that its form 
has originated by assimilation of two distinct types. 
The conclusion which I draw from a comparison of the types of 
needlecases here represented is that the flanged needlecase represents 
