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THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



Fig. 28, No. 89057 [877], from Nuwttk. This is peculiar in having the 

 haft fitted into a deep angular groove on one side of the head, which is 

 of pectolite and otherwise of the common pattern. The haft of reindeer 

 antler and the lashing of broad thong are evidently newer than the head 

 and are clumsily made and put on, the latter making several turns 



about one side of the 



VQ haft as well as through 



it and round the head. 



None of the unmount 

 ed heads, which are all 

 of pectolite, are, grooved 

 in this way to receive 

 the haft, but No. 50(558 

 [205] lias two shallow, 

 i ncomplet e grooves 

 round the middle for 

 lashings, and No. 50055 

 [218], which is nearly 

 square in section, has 

 shallow notches on the edges for the same purpose. One specimen of 

 the series comes from Sidaru, but differs in noway from specimens from 

 the northern villages. 



Stonemauls of this type have previously been seldom found among 

 the American Eskimo. The only specimens in the Museum from America 

 are two small unhafted maul heads of pectolite, one from Hotham Inlet 

 and the other from Cape Nome, and a roughly made maul from Norton 

 Sound, all collected by Mr. Nelson. The last is an oblong piece of dark- 

 colored jade rudely lashed to the end of a short thick stick, which has a 

 lateral projection round which the lashing passes instead of through a 



.Fill. 27. Stono maul. 



FIG. 28. Stone maul. 



hole in the haft. Among the &quot;Ohukches&quot; at Pithkaj, however, Nor- 

 denskiold found stone mauls of precisely the same model as ours and 

 also used as bone crushers. He observed that the natives themselves 

 ate the crushed bone after boiling it with blood and water. 1 Lieut. Hay 

 saw only dogs fed with it in the interior. Nordenskiold does not inen- 



1 Vega, vol. 2, p. 113 ; figures ou p. 112. 



