PLATE IX. 



(Maeon. Throwing-stickB.) 



Fig. 11. Norton Sound type, two-pegged variety. In all respects, excepting the 

 number of pegs, this resembles Figs. 9 and 10. In all of them the peg at 

 the bottom of the groove is very clumsy. Collected in Norton Sound, by 

 E. W. Nelson, in 1878. Museum number, r>2995. 



Fig. 12. Throwiug-stick from Sabotnisky, on the Lower Yukon. It belongs to the 

 Norton Sound type. The cavity on the upper side of the handle for the 

 finger-tips is remarkable for the carving of a bird resembling iigures seen 

 on objects made by the Western Indians of the United States. Collected 

 by E. W. Nelson, at Sabotnisky, in 1879. Museum number, 36013. 



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