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to be also used for drill bows. The tips of this bow represent seals 

 heads, and have good sized sky-blue glass beads inserted for 

 eyes. The rest of the ornamentation is incised and blackened. 

 Fig. 1536, No. 89421 [12(50], from rtkiavwifi. is a similar bow, 

 which has incised on the back figures of men and animals, 

 which, perhaps, tell of some real event. Mr. L. M. Turner 

 informs me that the natives of Norton Sound keep a regular 

 record of hunting and other events engraved in this way upon 

 their drill bows, and that no one ever ventures to falsify these 

 records. We did not learn definitely that such was the rule 

 at Point Barrow, but we have one bag-handle marked with 

 whales, which we were told indicated the number killed by 

 the owner. Pig. 153c, No. 89425 [1732], from TJtkiavwifi, is a 

 similar bow, ornamented on the back with simply an incised 

 border colored red. On the other side* are the figures of ten 

 bearded seals, cross-hatched and blackened. These are per 

 haps a &quot;score.&quot; Fig. 153rf, No. 89509 [914], from Nuwuk, is a 

 bow of the common pattern, but ornamented by carving the 

 back into a toothed keel. 



Fig. 153e, No. 89510 [9(51], from TJtkiavwIfi, is ornamented 

 on one side only with an incised pattern, which is blackened. 

 Fig. 153/, No. 89511 [9(51], also from Utkiavwlii, has, in addi 

 tion to the incised and blackened pattern, a small transparent 

 sky-bine glass bead inlaid in the middle of the back. Kig. 

 153&amp;lt;y, No. 89512 [83(5], from the same place, is a Hat bow with 

 the edges carved into scallops. The incised line along the 

 middle of the back is colored with red ocher. The string is 

 made of sinew braid. 



Fig. 154, No. 89777 [10046J, which belongs in the, &quot;kit&quot; of 

 lln bw ga, the Nunataiimiun, previously mentioned, is inter 

 esting from having been lengthened 3 inches by riveting on a piece of 

 reindeer antler at one end. The two pieces are neatly joined in a &quot;lap 

 splice&quot; about 2 inches long and fastened with three iron rivets. The 

 owner appears to have concluded that his drill bow was too short when 



Fro. 151.- 

 I&amp;gt;o\v drill. 



Fio. 152. Drill bow. 



he was at home, in the interior, where he could obtain no walrus ivory. 

 The incised pattern on the back is colored with red ocher. 



The mouthpiece (kl fimia) consists of a block of hard stone (rarely 

 iron), in which is hollowed out a round cup-like socket, large enough to re 

 ceive the tip of the drill shaft, imbedded in a block of wood of a suit 

 able size to hold between the teeth. This block often has curved flanges 

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