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and the bottoms fixed in with small wooden pegs. 

 Others were smaller and of a more elegant shape, 

 somewhat resembling a large oval butter-boat without 

 a handle, but more shallow, made from a piece of 

 wood or horny substance. These last were sometimes 

 neatly carved. They had many little square bags, 

 made of the same gut with their outer frocks, 

 neatly ornamented with very minute red feathers in- 

 terwoven with it, in which were contained some very 

 fine sinews and bundles of small cord made from them, 

 most ingeniously platted. They also brought many 

 chequered baskets so closely wrought as to hold 

 water, some wooden models of their canoes, a good 

 many little images four or five inches long, either of 

 wood or stuffed, which were covered with a bit of fur, 

 and ornamented with pieces of small quill feathers, in 

 imitation of their shelly beads, with hair fixed on 

 their heads. Whether these might be mere toys for 

 children, or held in veneration as representing their 

 deceased friends, and applied to some superstitious 

 purpose, we could not determine. But they have 

 many instruments made of two or three hoops, or con- 

 centric pieces of wood, with a cross-bar fixed in the 

 middle, to hold them by. To these are fixed a great 

 number of dried barnacle-shells, with threads, which 

 serve as a rattle, and make a loud noise when they 

 shake them. This contrivance seems to be a sub- 

 stitute for the rattling-bird at Nootka, and perhaps 

 both of them are employed on the same occasions.* 



With what tools they make their wooden utensils, 

 frames of boats, and other things, is uncertain, as the 

 only one seen amongst them was a kind of strong 

 adze, made almost after the manner of those of 

 Otaheite and the other islands of the South Sea. 

 They have a great many iron knives, some of which 

 are straight, others a little curved, and some very 



* The rattling-ball found by Steller, who attended Beering in 

 174-1, at no great distance from this Sound, seems to be for a similar 

 use. See Muller, p. 256. 



