There are a number of peculiar developments of the head and body designs which are used on small food trays, the sides of which are bent out of a single plank. In one group of these (fig. 282) the two narrow sides represent, in front, the head of the animal; on the opposite, side the tail. This appears most clearly in figs. 282 _b_ and _d_; both representing the beaver. In fig. 282 _d_ the beaver’s head and tail are perfectly plain. In 282 _b_ there is considerable confusion; the beaver’s body below is provided with two human arms and over it is indicated the large characteristic head. The tail is shown on the opposite short side, together with the hind legs and the two disconnected eyes which ordinarily would form the hip joints and would be connected with the upper end of the thighs. On all these specimens, 282 _a_, _b_, and _c_, the other sides show an inverted face. This originates evidently in such a way that the eyes represent, at one end, the shoulder joints, at the opposite end, the hip joints, but instead of developing the sides as fore and hind legs, the inverted eyes have lead to the development of a face design which has no particular relation to the animal represented. In other words, we find here, as well as in many other places that elements which are in part derived from representations of parts of animals, have assumed a purely decorative function so that an explanation of the details is, to a great extend, arbitrary. The geometrical decoration on the long side of fig. 282 _d_ is also derived from the shoulder and hip joints, but instead of parts of a face, slit designs fill in the rest of the side. [Illustration: Fig. 283. Carved trays.]