. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 72.—Ivory needle Fio. Ivory needle sealskin, elaborately ornamented with beads and stuffed with sphagnummoss. The cushion is perforated around the edge to receive the needles, which would not easily go through the tough one ofthese needle cushions iuthe collection is one ofthe old-fashioned thim-bles such as are still used,although metal thimblesare preferred. It is sim-ply a strip of sealskinsewed into a ring largeenough to fit the foref
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 72.—Ivory needle Fio. Ivory needle sealskin, elaborately ornamented with beads and stuffed with sphagnummoss. The cushion is perforated around the edge to receive the needles, which would not easily go through the tough one ofthese needle cushions iuthe collection is one ofthe old-fashioned thim-bles such as are still used,although metal thimblesare preferred. It is sim-ply a strip of sealskinsewed into a ring largeenough to fit the forefin-ger, and is usually at- cushion by a thong with au ivory toggle on the end, to prevent thethimble from slipping off. Small articles used in sewing, such as scraps of skin, needle cases,sinew thread, thimbles, etc., are carried iu smal bags of deerskin, whichare often elaborately ornamented with beads of various colors, like thespecimen in the collection, No. 3047. Notwithstanding the fact that these people have had their lot castupon the frozen shores of the sea, they a
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