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sides. In ornamentation it differs from those shown on plate i 

 (except d) in having a dot within the elevated circles and in having 

 two small cross-hatched areas on the terminal barb. The lines con- 

 nected with the circles are also somewhat more finely incised and are 

 applied with more precision. It differs from the first four specimens 

 in having three barbs at the base instead of one, in this respect being 

 similar to another type of the old Bering Sea harpoon head, examples 

 of which are shown on plate 2. 



Fig. I. — Closed socket harpoon head of fossil mammoth 

 ivory from Plover Bay, Northeastern Siberia. 



Plate 2, e, was collected by Mr. T. S. Scupholm from the deserted 

 village of Kukuliak on the north side of St. Lawrence Island. It has 

 an open socket for the foreshaft and rectangular slots for lashing. 

 The line hole is parallel with the blade slit. On the terminal barb has 

 been left a rectangular projection which gives it an appearance some- 

 what similar to figure i . The central barb and two smaller ornamental 

 remnants of barbs below it are features around which the decoration 

 centers, and are to be compared with similar slight projections along 

 the sides of a, c, and c, plate i. The decoration consists of straight 

 and curved lines, including very lightly incised broken lines. There 



