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THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



of hard, dark purple, slate. The, haft is of reindeer antler. The lash 

 ing has the short end knotted to the, long part after making the first 

 round, instead of being slit to receive the latter. Otherwise it is of 

 the, usual pattern. These composite adzes of bone and stone or iron 

 seemed to have been common at the end of the period when stone was 

 exclusively used arid when iron first came into use in small quantities, 

 and a good many have been preserved until the present day. We 

 obtained four halted and six unhafted specimens, besides seven jade 

 blades for such composite adzes, which are easily recognizable by 



Flo. 138. Hafted bone and stono ailz. 



their small size and their shape. They are usually broad and rather 

 thin, and narrowed to the butt, as is seen in Fig. 139, No. 50085 [71], a 

 beautiful little adz of bright green jade 2-8 inches long and 2-3 wide, 

 from TTtkiavwIfi. No. 50070 [240] also from Utkiavwin, is a similar 



blade of greenish jade slightly larger, 

 being 34 inches long and 2 inches wide. 

 No. 89070 [1092] is a tiny blade of hard, 

 fine-grained black stone, probably oil- 

 soaked jade, only 1-7 inches long and 1-5 

 wide. It is very smoothly ground. Such 

 little adzes, we were told, were especially 

 used for cutting bone. The implement, 1 

 which Nordenskjold calls a &quot;stone 

 chisel,&quot; found in the ruins of an old Es 

 kimo house at Cape North, isevidently the 



FIQ. 189. Small adz-blade of green jade. . , ,.,, i-iii i i 



head of oneoi these little bone adzes, as is 



plainly seenon coinparingthis figure with the larger adzes figured above. 



I have figured two more composite adzes, which are quite different 



from the rest. No. 89838 [1109], Fig. 140, has a blade of neatly flaked 



gray Hint, but this as well as the unusually straight haft is newly 



1 Figured iu tin; Voyage of tile Vega, vol. 1, p. 444, Fig. 1. 



