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THE POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



on each side, which rest against the cheeks. Such mouthpieces are 

 common all along the coast from the Anderson Itiver to Norton Sound, 

 as is shown by the Museum collection. No. 89500 [800J, figured in Point 

 Barrow Iteport, Ethnology, PL II, Fig. 3, is a type of the flanged mouth 

 piece. The block is of pine, carved into a thick, broad arch, with a 

 large block on the inside. Into the top of the arch is inlaid a piece of gray 



FlQ. 153. Drill bows. 



porphyry with black spots, which is slightly convex on the surface, so as 

 to project a little above the surface of the wood. In the middle of the 

 stone is a cup-shaped cavity one-halt inch in diameter and of nearly the 

 same depth. This is a rather large mouthpiece, being inches across 

 from one cud of the arch to the other. 



Flo. 154. Spliced drill bow. 



There are two other specimens of the same pattern, both rather smaller. 

 No. 89503 [891], Fig. 150, from Nuwuk, has the stone of black and white 

 syenite. This specimen is very old and dirty, and worn through to the 

 stone on one side, where the teeth have come against it. No. 89787 

 [1004c], Fig. 155, is almost exactly the same shape as the type, but has 



