Explanation of Plate LX — Continued. 



Fig. 5. Shaft, of spruce, painted red. Feathers, three, roughly seized with sinew. 

 Nock, flat. ; notch, U-shaped. The three barbs of the trident are inserted 

 in the end of the shaft so as to be about an inch apart at the outer point. 

 The barbs, of bone, are serrated on the inside. They are held in place 

 by a wrapping of sinew cord at their lower extremities, a curious braid of 

 the same cord attaching them to the tip of the shaft and holding them in 

 place. Length of shaft, 35 inches. 



Cat. :No. 72413, D. S. N. M. Southern Alaska. Collected by Charles McKay. 



Fi<;. ft. Shaft, of spruce wood. The lower end has been broken oft'. The upper 

 portion of this weapon deserves especial study. A little band of ivory, 

 fitted over the shaft, lA inches from the upper end. Precisely similar 

 bands are frequently labeled ornaments. Into the extremity of the shaft 

 is inserted a delicate point of walrus ivory, triangular in cross section. 

 Two of the edges are finely barbed. Three larger barbs, also triangular in 

 section, have their lower ends driven into the shaft under the ivory baud, 

 and the edges lie along in grooves extending to the end of the shaft. The 

 barbs of these three points are on the inside. Just at the end of the shaft 

 each of these outer barbs is perforated, and smew thread attaches them 

 together and also to the central barb, and is also wrapped around the 

 bases of these barbs just above the ivory band. Length of outer barbs, 6 

 inches. 



This arrow rejiresenls .» ty]>o Cat. JJo. 48342, U. S. K. M. Jvunivak Islaud. Col- 

 lected bv E. W. Nelson. 



