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CHISELS FINISHING TOOLS 



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Plate XXXVIII, 9, from Kusliunuk, is auotber slightly curved imple- 

 ment of bone, suboval in cross section and brouglit down to a flattened, 

 rounded, wedge-shape point. The handle is wrapped with a line rootlet 

 to aflbrd a firmer grasp for the hand, and has a round hole near the end 

 for attaching a cord. 



Plate XXXVIII, 15, from Ikogmut, is another of these wood-working 

 chisels, made of bone, having the raven totem etched on the upper 

 surface and a grotesque human countenance on the end of the handle; 

 just below the head it is encircled by a series of ornamental lines and 

 dots. Figure 13 of the same plate, from 

 Sledge island, is a similar implement. 



In the accompanying figure 24, 2, is 

 shown a curved chisel of deerhorn for 

 making wooden splints. It is very 

 much discolored from age, and upon 

 the inside of the curve are etched two 

 raven totem signs. This chisel is from 

 Kushunuk. 



Plate XXXVIII, 18, from the lower 

 Kuskokwim, is another of these tools. 

 It terminates at the upper end in a 

 carving which represents the head of a 

 gull. Figure 24, 1, from Kunivak isl- 

 and, is a broad-handle chisel of bone, 

 roughly crescentic in cross section. It 

 has the convex upper surface covered 

 with etchings representing a seal with 

 anatomical details; the interspace is 

 filled with a complicated mixture of 

 other figures representing fishes and 

 various animals and conventional signs. 



POLISHING AND FINISHING TOOLS 



For producing a smooth surface and 

 for finishing woodwork of all kinds 

 when it is desired to complete it with 

 more than usual neatness, a variety of 

 small implements of deer antler are used, in which are cut notches of 

 varying form for the purpose of rubbing along the projecting angles 

 and edges of the article in course of manufacture. 



Plate XXXVIII, 7, represents an implement of this kind from Sledge 

 island, having a broad notch in each end. Plate xxxviii, 3, obtained 

 at Port Clarence by Dr T. H. Bean, is somewhat similar in character 

 to the preceding. Figure 6 of this plate, from the lower Yukon, has a 

 single notch in one end and a long, curved handle. Figures 1, 4, and 8 

 are from the lower Yukon, and vary in the arrangement of the points 



Fig. 24— Wood chisels (J). 



