KELSON i 



SHOVELS, TICKS, AND MALLETS 



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piece of the jawbone of a whale, worked down to a thin, flat blade, 

 roughly rounded in outline. On its upper edge is a projection to which 

 a stout wooden handle is fastened by means of a strong lashing of 

 rawhide, which passes through two grooves and two holes in the blade. 



Figure 22, 1 , from Ikogmut, is a wooden shovel with a long, flat blade 

 and curved handle carved from one piece. The back surface of the 

 blade is slightly convex, with a medium ridge which extends upward to 

 the handle. The back and the 

 portion of the handle where 

 held are painted red. On the 

 inner surface of the blade, 

 near the handle, is the private 

 mark of the owner, consisting 

 of an incised circle and two 

 straight grooves extending ob 

 liquely outward from its upper 

 edge to the shoulders of the 

 blade. 



Plate xxxv, 1, represents an 

 ice pick obtained at Point Bar 

 row. It is made from a small 

 walrus tusk attached to a flat 

 wooden handle by strong raw 

 hide lashing passed through a 

 hole in the handle and two 

 holes in the butt of the pick. 

 The handle is wrapped in two 

 places with braided sinew cord, 

 to afford a firm grip for both 

 hands, above which are slight 

 projections of the wood to pre 

 vent it from slipping. 



MALLETS 



FIG. 23 -Mallets (J). 



Mallets of wood or deerhorn 

 are used for breaking ice from 

 the framework of fish traps 

 and sledge runners, for driving small pegs, and for other similar 

 purposes. 



Figure 23, 1, from Sabotnisky, is a deerhorn mallet about 12 inches 

 in length, with one end worked down to a flattened handle and the 

 other having a rounded knob truncated upon one face. The handle is 

 pierced for the reception of a rawhide cord, by means of which the 

 mallet can be suspended from the wrist. 



Figure 23, 3, from Ikogmut, is a small wooden mallet with a slender 

 rod-like handle about 5J inches in length; the head is made from a 



