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THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



into 11 saw (No. 80470 | 1200], Fig. 147), but without teeth, was used for 

 tliis purpose. 



That such stone blades were used with a haft is shown by the only 

 hafted specimen, No. 5002S [214], Fig. 1. 52, from Nuwfik. Tliis is a rather 

 small adz. The head of dark green jade (lifters from those already de- 



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Fio. 132. Hafted Jade ndl. 



scribed only in dimensions, being 4 inches long, 2-1 wide, and 1-7 thick. 

 The haft is of reindeer antler and in shape much like that of No. 5(50;{8 

 [300], but has only one hole for the lashing. The lashing is of the usual 

 stout seal thong and put on in the usual fashion. No. 

 80073 f 1423] is an old black adz from Sidaru of the same 

 pattern as those described, but very smoothly and 

 neatly made. About one-half of tliis 

 specimen has been cut off for whet 

 stones, etc. 



The next step is to make the lash 

 ing more secure by cutting trans 

 verse grooves on the upper face, of the 

 head to hold the thong in place. 

 This has been done on No. 500(57 

 [215], figured in Point Barrow Kept., 

 Ethnology, PI. n, Fig. 5, an adz of dark 

 olive green jade, from Utkiavwifi, 

 which shows two such grooves, broad 

 and shallow, running across the 

 upper face. Of these two classes the 

 collection contains thirteen unhafted 

 specimens and one hafted specimen, 

 all of jade. As (rutting these grooves in the stone is a laborious process, 

 the device of substituting some more easily worked substance for the 

 back part of the head would naturally suggest itself. 



Fig. 133, No. 80058 [1072], from Utkiavwlfi, has a long blade of black 

 stone with the butt slightly tapered off and imbedded in a body of 

 whale s bone, which has a channel 1 inch wide, for the lashing, cut round 



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