108 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [eth.axn. 18 



Figure 5, from Chalitmut, has an ivory handle terminating in two 

 knobs, one above the other, and sejtarated by a projecting beading. 



BOOT-SOLE 0REA8ER.S 



For crimi)ing or creasing the sealskin soles of boots around the toe 

 and heel, small, sharp-edged, flat-pointed pieces of ivorj' or bone are 

 used. Sometimes these are knife-like in shape, as in figure 49, plate 

 XLiv, from Sledge island, or are smooth, plain pieces like the specimen 

 shown in figure 43 of the same plate, which was obtained by Doctor 

 Dall from Nuuivak island. 



Figure 47 of the plate referred to represents a creaser in the form of 

 a walrus; the head and tusks are carved, and the flippers and certain 

 other anatomical, details are etched on the back of the implement. 

 This specimen is also from Nunivak island. 



Plate XLIV, 42, from Point Hope, is an elaborate boot creaser of this 

 kind, to the upper end of which, attached by a link, is a carving repre- 

 senting the head of a white bear. The body of the implement is sinuous 

 nearly to the end where it is flattened to a wedge shape. 



Fig. 29 — I'.oiit-sole creaser (full size). 



Plate XLIV, 41, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made from ivory 

 in the form of a knife, with a pendant attached by a link to the butt. 



Plate XLIV, 50, from Cape Prince of Wales, is a creaser with a link 

 at one end, to which is attached a short bodkin. 



Plate XLIV, 51, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made by shaping 

 down the small end of a piece of bone. 



The accompanying figure 29 is"an iv^ory boot-sole creaser from Nush- 

 agak; it is triangular in cross-section, with pictures etched on the three 

 sides. The side, represented shows a house witlt smoke issuing from 

 the smoke hole, an elevated storehouse to the left, and soine people 

 approaching with a loaded sledge from the right. 



Plate XLIV, 44, from Nunivak island, is a creaser in the form of a 

 murre's head. 



AVOMEN'S KNIVES 



( The knives used by Eskimo women for skinning and cutting up 



game and fish vary considerably in form. Some consist simi»ly of a 



broad piece of slate, roughly crescentic in shape, with the curved side 



ground to a thin edgeTf 



Figure 8, ])late xLtflJ from Razbinsky, represents one of these rough 



•slate knives. 



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