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fitted in, all being- held together by sinew braid. The foreshaft is of 

 whale's l)one, cN'lindrical. The socket for the point is oblong. Feath- 

 ers, two, especially noteworthy. The tip end of a half feather is 

 punched into the Avood near the neck, bent at right angle and carried 

 forward and lashed down by the assembling line. The fibrous part of 

 the feather is on the inside, between the rib and the shaft of the har- 

 poon. This style of feathering is seen on example 48153, from Sledge 

 Island, with three feathers; on 34020, from Norton Sound, and on 

 several specimens from Golof nin, and does not occur any farther south. 

 The point is of bone, concave on one side and convex on the other. 

 Barbs, three on one margin and two on the other. The tang of the 

 point is wide and fiat. The line is of seal hide; martingale formed bj'^ 

 splitting the line in the middle and tying- the two ends to the shaft. 

 There are two assembling lines — one extending from the upper knot 

 of the martingale to the joint of the shaft and foreshaft, where it forms 

 the seizing between the two; the other begins with the lower knot of 

 the martingale, where one end of sinew thread is punched into the 

 wood, passes backward, and is fastened oft' by a clove hitch. It then 

 returns to the starting point, where it is again fastened off, and goes on 

 to the feather by a series of turns and half hitches, laid on much as the 

 sinew on the sinew-biick bow. This is very interesting. Length of 

 shaft, 44: inches; foreshaft, 4^ inches; point, 2 inches. 



Example No. 129574, in the U. S. National Museum, is a barl)ed 

 harpoon from Cape Krusenstern, Kotzebue Sound. The delicate shaft 

 is conical in shape, tapering- from the foreshaft backward, and slightly 

 flattened in its thicker poition. It is socketed in the larger end for 

 the reception of the foreshaft, and slight!}' stained red. 



The foreshaft is of whale's bone, cylindrical in shape. The tang fits 

 in the open socket of the shaft, and on the outside the two bodies are 

 trimmed down so as to form one continuous surface. Seizing of sinew 

 twine. The socket for the point is quite large and extends across the 

 wooden plug inserted in the end of the bone. 



The hand rest is a slight hook of ivory set in the shaft, pierced with 

 one triangular hole and held by a wrapping of sinew thread, which is 

 also continued around the shaft a dozen times and fastened oft' by being 

 punched into the wood. 



The point is of bone, fiat on one side and rounded on the other. 

 Broad shank. Line hole almost circular. Barbs, three on one mar- 

 gin and two on the other. On the flat side of the point a shallow gut- 

 ter is cut from the line hole forward. 



The line is of seal skin. Gne end passes through the line hole and is 

 fastened by a conmion slip knot; the other end is made fast to the 

 shaft, about !♦ inches behind the hand rest, with a clove hitch of three 

 turns. 



The assembling line is of rawhide, one end caught under the seizing 



