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THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



side of the neck. Tlii.s is perhaps the commonest form of the comb, 

 though it is often made with two curved arms at the top instead of a 

 ring, as in Pig. 98&, No. 565(59 [194], or sometimes with a plain top, like 

 No. 56572 [210] (Fig. 98c). Nine of the ten combs, all from UtkiavwTn, 

 arc of walrus ivory, but No. 89785 [100(5], which was the property of 

 Ilii bwga, the Nunrttafiniinn, who spent the winter of 1882- 83 at Utki- 



Fio. 98. Hair combs. 



avwifi, is made of reindeer antler. This was probably made in the 

 interior, where antler is more plentiful than ivory. All these combs are 

 made with great care and patience. The teeth are usually cut with a 

 saw, but on one specimen the maker used the sharp edge of a pieee of 

 tin, as we had refused to loan him a tine saw. This kind of comb is very 

 like that described by Parry from [glulik. 1 



IMPLEMENTS FOR GENERAL USE. 



Knives. All the men are now supplied with excellent knives of civil 

 ized manufacture, mostly butcher knives or sheath knives of various 

 patterns, which they employ for numerous purposes, such as skinning and 

 butchering game, cutting up food, and rough whittling. Fine whittling 

 and carving is usually done with the &quot;crooked knife,&quot; to be described 

 further on. In whittling the knife is grasped so that the blade projects 

 on the ulnar side of the hand and is drawn toward the workman. A 

 pocketknife, of which they have many of various patterns, is used in 

 the same way. I observed that the Asiatic Eskimo at Plover Bay held 

 the knife in the same manner. Capt. Lyon, in describing a man whit- 



1 2nd Voyagw, p. 194, Fig. 12, PI. opp. p. 548. 



