142 COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



FIG. 329. Dagger knife, chiefly used as a hunting weapon. It consists of a ground 

 lancehead-shaped blade of dark slate, inserted and riveted by means of a 

 wooden peg into a barbed ivory socket, which is attached to a short cylindrical 

 handle of pine wood. From the natives of Nuiiivak Island, Alaska. 



FIG. 330. Scabbard of the dagger knife just described. Formed by two hollowed 

 pieces of pine z which are held together by a binding of split spruce roots. 



