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TEE POINT BARKOW ESKIMO. 



the tip, aud the lower edge is sloped oft so that the end of the haft is 

 flat and narrow, with a slight twist. The blade is riveted to the Hat 

 face of the haft with three iron rivets, and is a piece of a saw counter 

 sunk flush with the surface of the haft, so that it follows its curvature. 

 The cutting edge is beveled only on the upper face. The lower edge of 

 the haft, from the blade to the place where it begins to narrow, is pierced 

 with eleven equidistant holes, through which is laced a piece of seal 

 skin thong, the two parts crossing like a shoe-lacing, to prevent the 



FIG. 113. Lar&amp;lt;;e .Took-il knifi-. 



hand from slipping. The ornamental pattern on the upper face of the 

 haft is incised and was originally colored with red ocher, but is now 

 tilled with dirt. 



Fig. 114, No. 89780 [1004&amp;lt;Z], is a very long hafted knife (the haft is 

 12-3 inches long), but otherwise resembles the type, though not so 

 elaborately ornamented. The blade is also a bit of a saw. It is pro 

 vided with a sheath 3 inches long, made of black sealskin with the 

 black side out, doubled over at one side, and sewed &quot; over and over&quot; 

 down the other side and round one end. To the open end is sewed a bit 

 of thong with a slit in the end of it, into which one end of a lanyard of 

 seal twine 15 inches long is fastened with a beeket-hitch. When the 



FIG. 1H. Large crooked knift 1 . with sbcath. 



sheath is fitted over the blade the lanyard is passed through a hole in 

 the haft and made fast by two or three turns around it. Such sheaths 

 are often used by careful workmen. This particular knife was the 

 property of the &quot;inlander&quot; IhVbwgvi, previously mentioned. No. 89283 

 [%7], from Nuwiik, is interesting as being the only left-handed tool we 

 obtained. The fourth knife has a blade with a cutting edge of 3 inches, 

 while that of each of the others is 3 inches. 



The small knife differs little from the ml dlifi except in having the 

 haft very much shorter and not tapered off at the tip. Fig. 115, No. 

 56552 [145], from Utkiavwifi, shows a common form of this kind of 

 knife, though the blade usually has a sharp point like those of the large 



