MI RIKICH.] 



FIKK MAKING. 



289 



Fig. 281 (No. 89781 [1004c]) is OTIC of those tools, very neatly made, 

 with a haft of reindeer antler and a bone, blade, se- 

 eured by a whipping of seal thong which belongs 

 with the &quot;kit&quot; of tools owned by the &quot;inland&quot; na 

 tive, llu bw ga. Mr. Nelson collected a number of 

 specimens of this tool at various points on the north 

 west coast from Point Hope as far south as Norton 

 Bay, but I can find no evidence of its use elsewhere. 



FIKK MAKING. 



/&amp;gt;/(//*. In former times fire was obtained in the 

 method common to so many savages, from the heat 

 developed by the friction of the end of a stick worked 

 like a drill against a piece of soft wood. This in 

 strument was still in use at least as late as 1837, but 

 appears to have been wholly abandoned at Point 

 Barrow at the time of the P/ofvr s visit, though still 

 in use at Kot/ebue Sound. 2 



A native of Nuwfik one day brought down for sale 

 what he said was an exact model of the ancient fire drill, niootJn. This is 

 No. 89822 [1080], Fig. 282. The drill is a stick of pine 12 inches long, shaped 

 like the shaft of a common perforatingdrill, brought to a blunt but rounded 



Via. 281. Flint flaker 

 with IKIUO blade. 



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Fia. 28 J. Fire drill with mouthpiece and stock. 



point. This is worked by a string, without bow or handles, consisting 

 of a strip of the skin of the bearded seal, 40 inches long, and has for a 

 mouthpiece the astragalus bone of a reindeer, the natural hollow on one 

 side serving as a socket for the butt of the drill/ The point of the drill 



1 &quot;Their own dnniay method of producing fire in by friction wilh two pieces of dry wood iu the 

 manner of a drill.&quot; (T. Simpson, Narrative, p. 162.) 



Dr. Simpson, op. i-it., p. 242. 



31 Compare Nordenskiold s figure of the lire drill in u.se at I itlekaj (Veya, vol. 2, p. 121), which has a 

 similar hone for a socket, held not in the mouth hut in the left hand. 



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