Explanation of Plate L V — Continued. 



Fig. 6. Shaft of spruce. The head is of steel or iron. On each side of the head 

 are six sharp barbs put in with a file, and a portion of the long tang pro- 

 truding from the shaft is also serrated. The head is split, the tang 

 driven in and held in place by a lashing of sinew twine. Feathers, two, 

 seized at the end by narrow bands of sinew cord and standing ofl" from 

 the shaft. This type of arrow is evidently the direct descendant of the 

 aboriginal form, in which the head consists of a barbed piece and the 

 blade. These murderous heads of iron exist in great variety over the 

 Mackenzie region and have evidently been procured by the Eskimo from 

 the Hudson Bay Company. A collection of them is a very interesting 

 study in the variation of the arrowhead. Length of shaft, 2 feet; fore- 

 shaft, 5 inches. 



Cat. No. 875, U. S. N. M. Mackeuzin River Eskimo Collected by R. Kenricott. 



NoTK. — Specimens exist in the National Museum in which the iron blade is 

 attached to the bone barbed piece thus, and also specimens in which the blade is of 

 bone. Thus connection between the three types is established. 



