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PREHISTORIC FISHING. 



the blade is not in the middle, but nearer one of its corners, just as in the origi- 

 nal of Fig. 332. It was probably intended to exert a greater pressure on one side. 



Fig. 334. (24364). 



Figs. 333 and 334. — Stone fish-cutters. Eskimos, Norton Sound, Alaska. 



Fig. 335 presents the form of a " halibut-knife " used by the Makah Indians 

 of Neah Bay, Washington Territory, and sent by Mr. James G. Swan. The 

 blade consists of a thin piece of iron, and is inserted into a slightly-curved, 

 rather thick handle of pine-wood. The two holes in the blade have no signifi- 

 cance ; they were originally in the piece of sheet-iron obtained from tlie whites, 

 which was afterward utilized in the manufacture of a knife. 



Another Makah knife from Xeah Bay sent by him consists entirely of slaty 

 stone. It has, as Fig. 336 shows, a semi-circular cutting-edge and a massive, 



