EXPLANATION OF PLATE LI I. 



Barbed and Hakpoon Akrows of the Eskimo about the Alaskan Peninsi'LA. 



Fig. 1. Shaft, of cedar, 23^ inches long and i inch thiclc. A streak of red around 

 the middle and either end. The sliaftment is somewhat Hat, and orna- 

 meuted with two narrow stieaks of red and one bright streak of blue. 

 Feathers, three, two black and one banded brown and white; the ends 

 inserted into. slits cut in the shaft and seized with sinew poorly laid on. 

 The middle portions of the feathers are not glued to the arrow. The nock 

 is Hat, in a plane with the head, and is simply notched. The barb piece 

 of bone is 8 inches long and is let into a socket in end of arrow shaft. It 

 has a strong barb on one side at right angles to the head. It is ornamented 

 with deep longitudinal farrows. The triangular head of bone is a flat 

 blade inserted neatly in a deep slit at the head of the barb piece, which 

 is smoothed down so as to present no impediment to the passage into the 

 animal struck. 



Cat. No. 127627, U. S. N. M. Alaska. Collected by J. W. Johnson. 



Fig. 2. Shaft, of spruce, cylindrical; coarsely made ; banded with red paint. Feath- 

 ers, three, seized with sinew, one of them at the middle of the flat side 

 and the other two at the round corners of the other side. As usual with 

 the Eskimo, the end of these feathers is sunk into notches cut in the soft 

 wood. The nock is flat; the notch, angular. There is a barb piece of 

 bone set into the shaft, at the end, by a cylindrical tenon, and is seized 

 with sinew. Blade, of iron, set into the barb piece at right angles to the 

 plane of its longest diameter and cross section. One barb in the side of 

 the barb piece. Total length, 28 inches. 



Cat. No. 127627, U. S. N. M. Eskimo, Bristol Bay, Alaska. Collected by J. W. 

 Johnson. 



Fig. 3. Shaft, of cedar, cylindrical. Sliaftment, Hat, banded with blue stripes. 

 Feathers, three, seized with sinew thread and standing oft" quite a distance 

 from the sliaftment. The nock is flat; notch, angular. Blade, of slate, 

 inserted into the end of the barb piece of bone. The single barb is 1|- 

 inches long and is formed on one side by a narrow notch. Two shallow 

 gutters extend from this barb to the end of the shaft. The barb piece is 

 fitted into the end of the shaft by a dowel or peg made of bone and lashed 

 with a fine sinew thread. The blade is covered by a cap made of two 

 pieces of cedar neatly cut for the blade and the end of the barb piece and 

 joined together with a braid of sinew. This is a very effective and neatly- 

 made weapon. Total length of shaft, 30 inches. 



Cat. No. 90404, T'. S. N. M. Kadiak. Alaska. Collected by ATm. J. Fisher. 



Fig. i. Shaft, of cedar; al)out half an inch in diameter in the middle, tapering 

 slightly forward to within two inches of the end, where it is cylindrical, 

 and tapering backward gradually to the nock. Feathers, three, laid on 

 at ecmal distances apart and seized with fine sinew thread. The plume of 

 the feather is neatly cut into a triangular shape. The .sliaftment is painted 

 red. The nock is a bulb of extraordinary size, which gives the hunter all 

 the griji he could ask. Notch, shallow and angular. Foreshaft, of bone, 

 let into the end of the shaft by a dowel cut on the end of the bone. A 



