EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXXIII. 



Fig. 1. Scraper. Handle of wood, grip cylindrical, shaft triangular, expanding 

 downward to tit neatly the blade of slate, which lies in a cut on the 

 under side and is held in place by a neat lashing of fine rawhide string. 



Cat. No. 13921G, U. S. N. M. Eskimo of St. Michaels, Alaska. Collected by Lucien 

 M. Turner. 



Fig. 2. Scraper Handle. Of walrus ivory: very old. The noticeable marks are 

 the economy of material, the smallness of the owner's hand, the slight 

 grooves for thumb and first two fingers, and chiefly the spoon-shaped 

 cavity beneath for the ring and the little finger. Length, Si inches. 



cat No. 33093, U. S. N. M. Eskimo of Norton Sound, Alaska. Collected by E. W. 



Nelson. 



Fig. 3. Scraper. Handle of spruce wood. This i* an interesting connecting link 

 between the shaftless type and the long shafted type of the South. The 

 shaft from the point of the thumb is about 11 inches; no finger grooves. 

 Under cut two-thirds across. Grip a straight incline without tail piece. 



Cat. No. 44086, US. N M. Eskimo of Koyuk River Collected by Capt, P. H. Ray, 

 U. S. Army. 



