22 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 8l 



The terminal barb of a large closed socket whaling harpoon head 

 is shown in e. The arrangement of dots and short lines within a long 

 two-pronged figure is common on the smaller seal and walrus harpoon 

 heads of Punuk and Cape Kialegak. 



In / is shown an ivory object of unknown use decorated only on one 

 side. The dots are somewhat more numerous than on most of the 

 specimens. Two pairs of pronged figures enclosing four dots are 

 attached to the central band where the sides gradually widen. Between 

 these are six small dotted squares, such as are also found in modern 

 Alaskan Eskimo art (see pi. i8, a). 



In g is shown an object which may possibly have been one section 

 of a double knife handle. The under side is flat and at the large end 

 is a rectangular groove 33 mm. long, 7 mm. wide and 12 mm. deep, 

 too large to serve as a slot for any but a very thick stone blade. A wide 

 sunken groove extends around the surface for the purpose of lashing. 

 There is a narrow rectangular perforation at the lower end. The 

 decoration is a simple pattern consisting of a large triangle with two 

 Y-shaped figures terminating in dots, three vertical lines with similar 

 dots, and two plain oblique lines. 



A very slender harpoon socket piece or foreshaft, probably for a 

 toy harpoon, is shown in h. At the upper end is a small round hole 

 4.5 mm. deep for receiving the foreshaft or dart head. Somewhat 

 above the center is a small rectangular perforation. The ornamenta- 

 tion consists of lines and spurs, the latter being attached only to the 

 curved lines which enclose the pattern at both sides. Within these are 

 three pairs of straight lines meeting at acute angles, with the lower 

 ends coinciding with slight bulges along the sides. 



Plate 13 illustrates seven artifacts from Punuk Island and Cape 

 Kialegak on which the decoration is restricted to lines and spurs. 



A closed socket harpoon head with blade slit parallel with the line 

 hole is shown in a. The tip of the barb has been roughly cut off, leaving 

 serrations having somewhat the appearance of inverted barbs. The 

 lines and spurs are incised very deeply and still contain some of the 

 red ochre with which they were formerly filled. In addition to the 

 absence of circles and dots the pattern differs from those on the har- 

 poon heads previously described in having a greater number of lines 

 on the lower portion and in having short cross incisions at several 

 places. 



The second head, h, while an open socket type, has the same ar- 

 rangement of blade slit and line hole and bears essentially the same 

 decoration. It also has red ochre rubbed into the deep incisions. 



