EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXX. 



Fig. 1. Scraper. Blade of bone, with edge resembling that of a gouge, fastened 

 to a pine handle by a seizing of sinew. The edge is very smooth and 

 worn, and the specimen must have been used more as a beaming tool. 

 The drawing marked (2) is a precisely similar form dug from the ash-pit 

 graves of Madisonville. The attention of archaeologists is here called to 

 the fact that all the specimens from that celebrated cemetery are allied to 

 modern northern implements. 



Cat. No. 10307, U. S. N. M. Eskimo of Iglulik. Collected by Capt. C. F. Hall. 



Fig. 3. Scraper. Handle of soft wood, faintly and rudely cut in and grooved like 



the beautiful ivory specimens from Alaska. Thumb groove, fore and 



middle finger grooves atop; ring finger groove and undercut large: 



notch for finger, small. ' Th^ blade is a dull celt of sandstone let half its 



length into a socket in the end of the handle. Length, 4 inches. 



Cat. No. 34084, IT. S. N. M. Eskimo of Cumberland Gulf. Collected by L. Kumlien. 

 There are three examples of this type in the National Museum. 



