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DRILL BOW. Kot/ebue Sound. E. W. Nelson. 48528. Plate 22, fig. 2. 



DRILL BOW. Kotzebue Sound. E. \V. Nelson. 48527. 



DRILL BOW. Kot/ebue Sound. E. W. Nelson. 48530. Specimen deep yellow with 

 age and use. The characters are deeply incised and represent very heavy- 

 bodied reindeer. Both sides are decorated. 



DRILL BOW. Kotzebue Sound. E. W. Nelson. 48531. Plate 21, tig. 1. 



WORK BAG FASTENER. . Sabotnisky. E.W. Nelson. 48966. Made of a three-sided 

 piece of ivory in which the corners have been rounded and smoothed. The 

 ornamentations are sets of cross-lines, to the center of which are short lateral 

 lines, and between each such transverse set are small black spots and crosses. 



DRILL BOW. Hothaui Inlet. E.W. Nelson. 64153. Apiece originally almost square, 

 but by perforating at the ends, from beneath, the specimen was split vertically. 

 Both sides are ornamented, however, one side with but a few scratches, while 

 the other has a very interesting whale and walrus hunt. 



DRILL BOW. Hotham Inlet. E. W. Nelson. 64152. An old specimen with four 

 sides crudely engraved. Shooting with firearms, dragging seals, etc., comprises 

 the subjects portrayed. Three whale s flukes are also erected, to denote that 

 animal, while a dog sledge, with very rude drawing of the dog. 



DRILL BOW. Diomede Island. E. W. Nelson. 63621. Only 9 inches long and 

 averages one-fourth of an inch square; yet the four sides are ornamented; 

 three have lateral longitudinal border lines, between which are recorded mimer- 

 ous figures of umiaks after walrus and a ceremonial dance with one drummer. 

 On another side is a village, showing summer habitations or conical houses, 

 near meat racks, some boats, etc. The under side bears several animal forms, 

 and two mythic figures resembling the water monster, i. e., an elongated four- 

 footed and horned or crested serpent, referred to by Naornoff in connection with 

 fig. 139, c. 



DRILL BOW. Diomede Island. E. W. Nelson. 63623. Dark yellow or light brown 

 piece of ivory. The four engraved sides are shown in text figures. 



KANTAG HANDLE. Point Hope. E. W. Nelson. 63801. 



DRILL BOW. Point Hope. E. W. Nelson. 63802. Very crude though deeply incised 

 line, composing animals, etc., is shown on rather white ivory. An interesting 

 whale hunt is shown ; the flukes appear like detached decorative ones, attached 

 to the rear end of bodies. 



Flukes are also shown at one place; while a native crawling along on his 

 stomach, to approach seals, is also engraved. 



Upon the top edge are four birds, four different forms of representing them. 



BAG HANDLE. Point Hope. E.W. Nelson. 63803. The undersurface of this stained 

 old specimen bears the figures of eleven outstretched hides, at the right being 

 a human figure. Upon the top face is some linear decoration, while near the 

 middle of the specimen are figures of four reindeer, facing to the right. Portions 

 of the figures are without the brown-black stain, the legs being slender and 

 the hoofs indicated by minute etchings made by a sharp-pointed graver. 



Upon the outer curve are a number of nucleated rings, 33 in number, and 

 each three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. The under side bears a median 

 line, upon which are portrayed, in various attitudes, nine reindeer. The figures 

 are rather deeply incised and very black. The coloring matter in several places 

 has fallen out, as if it had become hard or dry. 



BAG HANDLE. Point Hope. E. W. Nelson. 63809. 



Bow OR HANDLE. &quot;Chilcat.&quot; J. J. McLean. 67904. An almost square, slightly 

 curved specimen, with engravings on all sides excepting the under or concave 

 one. The top or convex surface bears, among other objects, a large umiak, the 

 four occupants of which are indicated by the heads, arms, and paddles only, the 

 vertical body line being purposely omitted or forgotten. Some conventional 

 trees are used as ornamental markings. The sides bear seal hunts, and most of 

 the records have been reproduced in the text. 



