108 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH.ANN. 18 



Figure 5, from Clialitmut, has an ivory handle terminating in two 

 knobs, one above the other, and separated by a projecting beading. 



]50OT-SOLE OREASERS 



For crimping or creasing the sealskin soles of boots around the toe 

 and heel, small, sharp-edged, flat-pointed pieces of ivory or bone are 

 used. Sometimes these are knife-like in shape, as in figure 49, plate 

 XLIV, from Sledge, island, or are smooth, plain pieces like the specimen 

 shown in figure 43 of the same plate, which was obtained by Doctor 

 Dall from Xuuivak island. 



Figure 47 of the plate referred to represents a creaser in the form of 

 a walrus ; the head and tusks are carved, and the flippers and certain 

 other anatomical details are etched on the back of the implement. 

 This specimen is also from Nunivak island. 



Plate XLIV, 42, from Point Hope, is an elaborate boot creaser of this 

 kind, to the upper end of which, attached by a link, is a carving repre 

 senting the head of a white bear. The body of the implement is sinuous 

 nearly to the end where it is flattened to a wedge shape. 



FIG. 29 Hoot-sole creaser (full size). 



Plate XLIV, 41, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made from ivory 

 in the form of a knife, with a pendant attached by a link to the butt. 



Plate XLIV, 50, from Cape Prince of Wales, is a creaser with a link 

 at one end, to which is attached a short bodkin. 



Plate XLIV, 51, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made by shaping 

 down the small end of a piece of bone. 



The accompanying figure 29 is an ivory boot-sole creaser from Nush- 

 agak; it is triangular in cross-section, with pictures etched on the three 

 sides. The side, represented shows a house witk smoke issuing from 

 the smoke hole, an elevated storehouse to the left, and some people 

 approaching with a loaded sledge from the right. 



Plate XLIV, 44, from Nunivak island, is a creaser in the form of a 

 murre s head. 



WOMEN S KNIVES 



[ The knives used by Eskimo women for skinning and cutting up 

 game and fish vary considerably in form. Some consist simply of a 

 broad piece of slate, roughly crescentic in shape, with the curved side 

 ground to a thin edgeT| 



Figure 8, plate XL&quot;^fl, from Kazbiusky, represents one of these rough 

 slate knives. 



