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Identical material and mode of manufacture have likewise resulted in 

 the accompanying spokeshave or dras, the "drawknife." It is of the 

 greatest usefulness to the modern Indian, so much so that there is not a 

 house among the Carriers wherein it is not to be seen. They employ it 

 to finish the inside of their canoes, to shave off the rods used in the 

 construction of their fish-traps, to fashion the side and transversal sticks 



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of their snow-shoes, and to do almost any kind of manual work in con- 

 nection wherewith a white man would use a draw-knife or even a common 

 pocket knife. The lower grade of dras is made of the blade of a table 

 knife. The handle of the specimen above illustrated is of cariboo bone, 

 secured to the blade first by copper wire and then by rawhide lines 

 wrapped around. The whole tool is of native manufacture. 



