SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



269 



Fig. 99 is a fish-spear head of wood with incurved points or barbs of 

 bone ; the binding is of cherry bark. These hooks are 

 used by the Makaks and other Northwestern Indians. >&— 



Fig. 100 is afisk-spearof the Chookchees (TschucTclochies) 

 of Northeast Siberia. It has a long stout shaft of pine 

 wood, only one-half the length of which is shown. The 

 head consists of two baleen prongs, on the ends of which 

 are lashed two incurved points of ivory, forming barbs. 

 The same style of fish-spear is used by the Youcon In- 

 dians of the Mackenzie River country. 167 The Fuegan 

 fishing-spear is 10 feet long and has an octagonal shaft 

 with a bone head 7 inches in length, with a single barb. 



The National Museum in the Government Building 

 had specimens of whale and seal lances from Siberia, 

 Alaska, and Greenland. 



Fig. 101 is a seal-spear from the Chookchees of North- 

 east Siberia. It has a long spliced pine-wood handle 

 and movable point of bone with a metallic tip. 



Harpoons with movable 168 and immovable points 169 are 

 shown in Sven Nilson's " Stone Age," edited by Sir John 

 Lubbock. 



Fig. 102 is a whaling-lance from the Fonook Eskimo of 

 Alaska. It is pointed with a portion of a marrow-bone 

 cut off obliquely so as to afford a long cutting-edge. The 

 butt-end has a flattened piece to fit the throwing-board, 

 which will be shown presently. The piece on the side is a Fir - ioo— Chookchee 



fish-spear, .Siberia. 



spur or button to prevent the spear penetrating the whale 



too far. The Ostiaks, Chookchees, and Keriaks secure the same end 



Fig. 101. — Seal-spear < f the Chookchees, Northeast Siberia. 



by binding the shaft with raw sea-lion hide, which, drying, forms an ini- 



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FlG. 102. — Whaling-lance of Alaska Eskimo. 



movable ridge. Fig. 103 is a whaling-lance of the Greenland Eskimo. 



167 Smithsonian Report for 1866, p. :W4. 



168 " Stone Age," Plate iii, Figs. 52, 53 (for bladder spears). 



l6 *Ibid. Plate iii, 41, 50, 51 ; Plate iv, 09, 72 (bone tips and bone tipped with stone). 



