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THE POINT BABBOW ESKIMO. 



edge has three little barbs about tlie middle of the pile. This was the 

 only arrowhead of the kind seen at Point Barrow, and the native who 

 sold it said it was a &quot;Kufiinud lifi&quot; arrow. I was pleased to find the 

 truth of this corroborated by the Museum collection. There are two 

 arrows from the, Mackenzie region (Nos. 110(i and 190G) with bone piles 

 of almost the same form. 



For shooting gulls, geese, and other large fowl they used an arrow 

 with a straight polygonal pile of walrus ivory, 5 or inches long and about 

 one-half inch in diameter, terminating in a somewhat obtuse polygonal 

 point, and having one or more unilateral barbs. These piles are gener 

 ally live-sided, though sometimes trihedral, and have a long, rounded 

 tang inserted into the end of the shaft. Fig. 189 (No. 8934!) [119] 

 from Utkiavwiii), represents one of these arrows with a 

 five-sided pile 5-5 inches long, with four simple barbs. 

 The rest of the arrow does not differ from the others de 

 scribed. No. 89238 [25], from Nuwuk, has a trihedral pile 

 C-(t inches long, with a single barb. Another from Nuwfik 

 (No. 89241 [25]) has a trihedral pile 5-3 inches long, with 

 two barbs, and one from Utkiavwffi (No. 89241 [11!)]) has 

 a live-sided pile with three barbs. The remaining three, 

 from Sidaru, all have five-sided piles with one barb. 



Arrows of this pattern are called tuga lin (from tu ga, 

 walrus ivory). There are also in the collection two small 

 arrows of this pattern suited for a boy s bow. They are 

 only 25 inches long, and have roughly trihedral sharp- 

 pointed ivory piles about 4 inches long, without barbs. 

 (No. 89904rt [78(i] from Utkiavwlfi). These arrows are new 

 and rather carelessly made, and were intended for the 

 lad s bow (No. 89904 [780]) already described. The three 

 kinds of arrows which have been described all have the 

 pile secured to the stele by a tang fitting into a cleft or 

 hole in the end of the latter, which is kept from splitting 

 by whipping it with sinew for about one-half inch. 



The fourth kind, the blunt bird arrow (ki xodwain), on 

 the other hand, has the pile cleft to receive the wedge- 

 shaped tip of the stele and secured by a whipping of sinew. 

 FIG. 189. Arrows : The four arrows of this kind in the collection are almost 



(a) fowl arrow .. ... .. , , . . . ,, 



(tngniin) ; (6) exactly alike, except that three of them, belonging to the 



i.mi arrow (kix. se j f rom gifi arUi have three feathers. Fig. 189ft, No. 72773 



[234c] from Sidaru represents the form of arrow. The pile 



is of hard bone 2-3 inches long. A little rim at each side of the butt 



keeps the whipping of sinew from slipping off. The rest of the arrow 



differs from the others described only in having the end of the stele 



chamfered down to a wedge-shaped point to fit into the pile. 



This is the kind of arrow mostly used by the boys, whose game is 

 almost exclusively small birds or lemmings. Nowadays the bone pile 



