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THK POINT HARROW ESKIMO. 



sharpened down. It is imbedded in &amp;lt;i handle of fossil ivory which has 

 turned a light yellowish brown from age. Its total length is 2-8 inches, 



FIG. 159 Flint-bladed reamers. 



Hammers. At the present day nearly every man has been able to 

 procure an iron hammer of some kind, which he uses with great handi- 

 ness. Before the introduction of iron, in addition to the bone and 

 stone mauls above described as bone crushers, unhaf ted pebbles of con 

 venient shape were also employed. No. 50001 [274] is such a stone. It 

 is an ovoid water- worn pebble of greenish gray quartzite, 3 inches long. 

 The ends are battered, showing how it had been used. It was brought 

 from one of the rivers in the interior by one of the natives of Utkiav- 

 wifi. 



Files. Files of all kinds are eagerly sought after by the natives, 

 who use them with very great skill and patience, doing nearly all their 

 metal work with these tools. For instance, 

 one particularly ingenious native con 

 verted his Winchester rifle from a rim fire 

 to a central fire with nothing but a file. To 

 do this he had to make a new firing pin, as 

 the firing pin of the rim-fire gun is too short 

 to reach the head of the cartridge. He 

 accomplished this by accurately cutting off 

 to the proper length, an old worn out three- 

 cornered file. lie then filed off enough of 

 each edge so that the rod fitted evenly in 

 the cylindrical hole where the firing pin 

 works. The work was done so carefully 

 that the new firing pin worked perfectly, 

 and he had only to complete the job by 

 cutting off his central fire cartridge shells 

 to a proper length to fit the chamber of 

 the gun. 



They have almost no knowledge of working metal with 

 the aid of heat, as is natural from the scarcity of fuel. r 181 - Awl - 

 I have, however, seen them roughly temper small articles, such as fire 

 steels, etc., by heating them in the fire and quenching them in cold 



Fio. 160. Flint- 

 bladed reamer. 



