Labrets of this material and pattern do not seem to be common anywhere. Beechey saw one in Kotzebue Sound 3 inches long and 1½ wide,[N266] and there is a large and handsome one in the Museum brought by Mr. Nelson from the lower Yukon. A similar one has recently been received from Kotzebue Sound. [Footnote N266: Voyage, p. 249.] [Illustration: FIG. 94.--Oblong labret of bone.] Fig. 94, No. 89712 [1169], from Sidaru is a labret of similar shape, 3 inches long and 1½ broad, but made of compact bone, rather neatly carved and ground smooth. It shows some signs of having been worn. There are marks on the stud where it appears to have been rubbed against the teeth, and it is probably genuine. The purchase of this specimen apparently started the manufacture of bone labrets at Utkiavwĭñ, where no bone labrets, old or new, had previously been seen. For several days after we bought the specimen from Sidaru the natives continued to bring over bone labrets, but all so newly and clumsily made that we declined to purchase any more than four specimens. About the same time they began to make oblong labrets out of soapstone (a material which we never saw used for genuine labrets), like Fig. 95, No. 89707 [1215]. The purchase of three specimens of these started a wholesale manufacture of them, and we stopped purchasing. [Illustration: FIG. 95. Oblong labret of soapstone.] The oblong labret appears to have been still in fashion as late as 1826, for Elson saw many of the men at Point Barrow wearing oblong labrets of bone (_cf._ No. 89712 [1169] and stone, 3 inches long and 1 broad.[N267] Unfortunately, he does not specify whether they were worn in pairs or singly, and if singly, as would be natural from their size and shape, whether in the middle of the lip or at one side. [Footnote N267: Beechey’s Voy., p. 308.] [Illustration: FIG. 96.--Ancient labrets.]