. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. Ornament (Tlingit. Emmons Coltion.) Fig. Ornament. mons Collec- (Tlingitand Hiiitk. Ition.). 262 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. Finger-rings.—These were formerly made entirely of copper, boue,shell, or black slate, and were ornamented with totemic designs. Nowsilver has so generally displaced all other materials that the primitivetypes are rarely seen. Bracelets.^-¥ig. 5, Plate vi, is a pair of copper bracelets from BellaBella, British Columbia, (Kwakiutl) similar to those worn north. represen
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. Ornament (Tlingit. Emmons Coltion.) Fig. Ornament. mons Collec- (Tlingitand Hiiitk. Ition.). 262 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. Finger-rings.—These were formerly made entirely of copper, boue,shell, or black slate, and were ornamented with totemic designs. Nowsilver has so generally displaced all other materials that the primitivetypes are rarely seen. Bracelets.^-¥ig. 5, Plate vi, is a pair of copper bracelets from BellaBella, British Columbia, (Kwakiutl) similar to those worn north. represents a pair from Fort Wrangell, Alaska, also of copper, in-laid wjth haliotis shell. Fig. 7 is one similar in style to that shown inFig. 6, from Fort Simpson, British Columbia (Tsimshian). Fig. 8 rep-resents a very primitive type of copper bracelet of twisted copper wire,from Fort Rupert, British Columbia (Kwakiutl), but similar to thoseworn north. Fig. 166 is a Tlingit iron bracelet of native workman-ship, from the Emmons Collection. Plate viiirepresents the types of silver bracelets wornon the northwest coast at the present are made from silver coin, and have re-place
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