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black slate wedged into a slot in the wooden handle, which is broad 

 near the socket and tapers gradually to the grip, where it is enlarged 

 to form a broad oval to rest in the palm of the hand. A broad groove 

 runs down tlie front of the handle, and the sides are flattened to form 

 rests for the thumb and the forefinger. 



Plate XLix, 7, from Kotzebue sound, is a short handle for a scraper, 

 made of fossil mammoth ivory, with a slit in its lower end for the 

 Insertion of a flint blade. It is hoHowed on the lower side of the bent 

 upper portion to receive the thumb. On the outer surface are two 

 grooves for the second and third fingers. The first finger is intended to 

 rest at the base of the blade. 



Plate XLIX, 8, from Kowak river, has a chisel-point, chipped flint 

 blade, inserted in a plain handle of fossil mammoth ivory. Another 

 specimen (number 48627), from Kotzebue sound, has a chipped flint 

 blade inserted into a slot in the mammoth ivory handle, which has a 

 groove on the inside for a thumb rest and two on the upper surface for 

 the first and second fingers. A deep slot on the under surface is 

 intended to receive the third and fourth fingers. 



Plate XL.IX, 14, from Hotham inlet, is a wooden handle larger than 

 that last described, but grooved in the same manner to receive the 

 fingers. 



Plate XLIX, 3, also from Hotham inlet, is a short handle of mam- 

 moth ivory, with a slot for the insertion of a flint blade. The back of 

 the handle forms a flaring edge intended, when in use, to rest on the 

 under surface of the hand near the base of the thumb, while the first 

 and second fingers are placed in a deep groove in front and the third 

 and fourth fingers lie in a deep excavation on the under surface. 



Plate XLIX, 2, from Point Hope, is a handle made from fossil mam- 

 moth ivory, with a deep groove on the inside for receiving the thumb, 

 two grooves on the upper surface for the first and second fingers, and 

 an excavation on the lower surface for the third and fourth fingers. 



Plate XLIX, 4, from Point Hope, is a scraper consisting of a small flint 

 blade fitted into a handle of mammoth ivory. On the inside is a shal- 

 low depression for the reception of the thumb, and another above for 

 the first and second fingers; a deep slot across the lower surface is for 

 the third and fourth fingers. 



Plate XLIX, 9, from Point Hope, has a blade of brown flint in a wooden 

 handle, which has a deep slot for the thumb on the inner side, two 

 grooves for the first and second fingers on the upper surface, and a 

 deep excavation below for the third and fourth fingers. 



Plate XLIX, 6, from Point Hope, is a very curious specimen, roughly 

 triangailar in shape; the chipped flint blade is fitted into a groove in a 

 wooden handle, which has a large blue bead inlaid on the upper part; 

 on the inside is a deep slot for the reception of the point of the thumb; 

 along the front of the top is a deep excavation bordered above by three 

 grooves for the ends of three fingers, and on the outside a hollow for 

 the little finger. 



