EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXI. 

 Sinkw-Backki> Bows of Eskimo. 



The first two figures upuu this plate, Ifiaud 17, illustrate a bow in which the south- 

 ern type of wood has adniiuistered upon it the hacking of the Arctic type. The 

 method of adniiuistering the short strands by means of half hitches to prevent the 

 splitting of the wood is exhibited in the second <lrawing, figure 17. 



The last two figures upon this plate l)eloug to what Murdoch calls the Western 

 type. Perhajjs it might be called the Chukchi type. The nu)st noticeable feature 

 is that the hacking does not pass around the nocks at the ends of the bow, but the 

 whole cable is held upon the back by means of a series of half hitches. The wood 

 of the bow is either straight or of Tatar shape. 



These examples are Cat. Nos. 8822, from Yukon Delta, figures 16 and 17, collected 

 by "W. H. Dall, and 2.505 from Siberia, figure 18, collected by the North Pacific Explor- 

 ing Expedition, U. S. N. M. 



