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THK 1 OINT HAKHOW ESKIMO. 



than it has done already. The drill is of iron and the shaft of spruce, 

 which was once painted with red ocher. 



No. 80407 [810] (Fig. 150) has a ferrule of coarse-grained bone neatly 

 pegged on with two small pegs of the same material. This is unusual 



with steel drills. The- shaft is of 



spruce and of the same shape as 



in the preceding specimen. No. 



8050&quot;) [875] (Fig. 151) is figured to 



show the way in which the shaft 



has been mended. A wedge-shaped 



piece 3i inches long and 0-3 to 0-4 



inch wide has been split out of the 



large end and replaced by a fresh 



piece of wood neatly fitted in and 



secured by two tight whippings of 



sinew braid, each in a deep groove. 

 No. 80515 [801], figured in Point 



Barrow Heport, Ethnology, PI. u, 



Fig. 2, is a typical bow (piziksuA) 



for use with these drills. It is of 



walrus ivory, 10 inches long and 



oval in section. Through each end 



is drilled a transverse hole. A 



string of seal thong 21 inches long 



is looped into one of these holes 



by passing one end of the thong 



through the hole, cutting a slit 



in it, and passing the other end 



through this. The other end is 



passed through the other hole and 



knotted at the tip. 



These bows vary slightly in dimensions, but 

 are not less than a foot or more than 10 inches 

 long, and are almost always of walrus ivory. 

 No. 80508 [050] (Fig. 152), is an old and rudely 

 made bow of whalebone, which is more strongly 

 arched than usual, and has the string attached 

 to notches at the ends instead of into holes. 

 This was said to belong with an old hone drill, 

 No. 80408 [050]. Moth came from Nuwilk. 

 These bows are often highly ornamented both 

 by carving and with incised patterns colored 

 with red ocher or soot. The following figures 

 are introduced to show some of the different &quot;&quot; iri &quot;&quot;p, 11 &quot; &quot; &quot;&quot;&quot;&quot; h 

 styles of ornamentation. 



Fig. 153ff, No. 50500 [208] is unusually broad and fiat and was prob 

 ably made for a handle to a tool bag. Such handles, however, appear 



I ll;. 149. Bow 

 drill. 



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