EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXIV. 

 8inkw-Kackki) Bows ok Eskimo. 



The priucipal figure upon this plate shows the administration of the braided line 

 just at the point wheie tlie third cable coming from the nock crosses the bend in the 

 bow. It is at this point that the greatest strain occurs and there is more pressing 

 need for additional protection. Of this bow Murdoch says that '' it approaches very 

 close to the Arctic type, but shows traces of the Western model in having the ends 

 of the long strands stretched across the bend and one single short strand returning 

 to the tip from beyond the bend, while a fourth is precisely of the Arctic tyjie, with 

 a very large number of strands." The ivory levers shown upon the plate have been 

 described, and are used in Cat. Nos. 2506 and 89466, U. S. N. M. 



Figures 25 and 26 illustrate a peculiar " clove bitch '' and '' soldier's bitch '" em- 

 ployed in this example. 



Point Barrow. Collerlcil )i\ U. S. Iiit«<riia(ioii;il I'oliir Kxpeditioii. 



