﻿NO. 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS. I926 



251 



The photographs at Neah Bay consisted of 12 portraits, numerous 

 landscape and dance pictures, and a series of 20 posed pictvires show- 

 ing the successive postures in various dances. The 2/ specimens ob- 

 tained included a very old rattle used by a successful whaler, a war 

 knife of whale bone, and a war club of the same material with 

 feathers on the handle " to break the force of the blow " to the arm 



Fig. 240. — Albert Irving. (Photograph by Miss Densmore.) 



that wielded it. Other specimens were a braided rope of whale sinew 

 and a portion of a whale vertebra used for smoothing the bottom 

 of war and whaling canoes. Old halibut hooks of elk bone were 

 obtained, also an old adze with blade of elk bone, this being the type 

 of implement used in felling trees before the Makah had metal axes. 

 The collection included a small reed instrument commonly called a 

 whistle which, when blown, was concealed in the mouth of a thunder- 



