INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION, EDINBURGH, 18S2 



IS 



16, 17 

 18 



19, 20 



28, 29 



36 



37,38 



Harpoon, the shaft made of wood and ivory, the head of 

 bone armed with a thin, flat plate of iron; used to 

 kill the walrus and the largest kind of seals. 



Two OARS, not painted. 



Seal-gut great coat. 



BlRD-D.\RTS of wood with point and barbed projections of 

 bone or ivory, resembling the darts used by the Eskimo. 



Wooden Iiancilc for throwing the bird-darts no. lo, 20. 



Dart of wood. 



Dart of wood with ivory point. 



Dart of wood with carved ivory point. 



Whip SLING with shaft of wood and cord of leather, for 

 casting the darts no. 22, 23, 24. 



Seventeen arrows with ivory-, bone- or iron-i)oinls; fea- 

 thers are generally wanting; the shaft is a clumsily 

 worked piece o{ wood. 



Seventeen ARROWS with ivory-, bone-, wooden or iron-jjoints, 

 feathers generally wanting, shaft of wood. 



Four QUIVERS of red leather with a beautiful embroidery 

 of white reindeer hair and white strips of skin. No. 

 28 ornamented with four tails of ground-squirrel 



(Spermophilus). 



Two Bows consisting of a slightly bent elastic piece of 

 wood, with the ends drawn together by a skin thong. 

 The old Chukches used the bow for martial pur- 

 poses. Now this weapon is employed only for hun- 

 ting, but it appears as if even for this purpose it 

 would soon go out of use. 



Bow, old, larger than no. 32, 2,2, carefully made of a 

 sharply bent elastic piece of wood, covered with birch- 

 bark, and strengthened by an artistic plaiting of sinews 

 on the outer side. String of a skin thong. 



Bow, old, in the form resembling n. 33 but consisting of 

 three pieces of wood not surrounded by birch-bark 

 and strengthened by only a small number of plaited 

 sinews on the outer side. String of a skin thong. 



Crossbow of wood with a string of seal skin. 



Two BiRU-SLINGS consisting of a number of round balls 

 of ivory or bone fastened to strings of twisted sinews or 

 to leather thongs which are knotted together. Some 

 feathers are fixed to the knot in order to increase 

 the resistance of the air to this part of the sling. When 

 the sling is thrown the balls are thereby scattered 

 in all directions, and the probability of the hit- 

 ting becomes greater. Every man and boy in sum- 

 mer carries with him such a sling, often bound round 

 his head, and is immediately prepared to cast it at 

 flocks of birds flying past. 



Chukches. 



Pitlekaj. 

 Irkaipij. 



Yinretlen. 



Pitlekaj. 



Pitlekaj. 



Voy. of Vega 



II, 105 f. i; 



109. 



Vov. of Vega 

 il. 93- 



Voy. of Vega 

 I. 432- 



Voy. of Vega 



n, 105 f. s; 

 109. 



Voy. of Vega 

 II, 105 f. 4. 



Voy. of Vega 

 II, 107. 



Voy. of ^'ega 

 II, 106; 135. 



Voy. of Vega 

 II, 107; 108. 



Voy. of Vega 

 II, 108. 



Voy. of Vega 

 II, 109; 

 105 f- 3- 



