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Figure 1, plate lxi a, shows one of two arrows from St Lawrence island, 

 both of which have long, pointed, triangular heads of ivory, the butts 

 of which are set in slots in the wooden shafts and fastened by sinew 

 lashings. The shafts have their fore ends triangular in continuation 

 of the shape of the points, but toward the butt they become round, 

 and are flattened as they approach the end. One of these shafts is 

 broadly flattened as an aid to the feathering in guiding its flight; the 

 other was feathered upon both sides of the flattened butt, but the 

 feathering has been lost. 



Figures 4 and 6, i)late lxi a, are ivory- pointed arrows from St Law- 

 rence island. 



Figure 2, plate lxi «, represents an arrow from St Lawrence island, 

 having a long, triangular point of ivory with four notches on one side 

 of the point without barbing, except on the hindmost, where the point 

 is cut to a wedge-shape for insertion in a slot in the wooden shaft. This 

 shaft has two feathers from a cormorant tail, fastened in the usual 

 manner. 



Figure 8, plate lxi a, shows an arrow obtained on Nunivak island by 

 Doctor Ball. It has a long bone point with three notches on the side 

 and a groove running along their bases, thus marking the arrow as 

 belonging to a man of the wolf totem. The point is inserted in a hole 

 in the shaft, which is wound with sinew lashing; it has three feathers 

 near the butt, held in j)ositidn by a sinew cord. 



Figure 3, plate lxi«, shows an arrow from St Lawrence island, with 

 a long, flattened bone point with a strong barb on one surface and 

 grooved along the other. . There are two tail-feathers of a cormorant 

 on the flattened sides of the shaft near the butt. 



Figure 7, plate LXir/, shows an arrow obtained at St Michael by Mr 

 L. M. Turner. The point is of bone, triangular in cross-section, but 

 becoming round near the butt, where it in inserted in the shaft and held 

 in place by a sinew lashing. The butt of the shaft is not feathered. 



Figure 10, plate lxi a, represents an arrow obtained by Doctor Dall 

 from Nunivak island; it has a foreshaft of bone, is suboval in cross- 

 section, with a single strong notch and barb on one side and a thin, 

 triangular tip of iron inserted in a notch at the top. It has three 

 halves of feathers at equal intervals around the butt, fastened in the 

 usual manner. 



Figure 11, plate lxi a, from St Lawrence island, has a bone fore- 

 shaft in which a triangular point is inserted, and two cormorant 

 feathers near the butt of the shaft. 



Figure 12, plate lxi a, from St Lawrence island, has a bone fore- 

 shaft set on the shaft iu an unusual manner. The foreshaft has a 

 wedge-shape slot in which the wooden shaft is inserted, and an iron 

 point is fixed in a slot in the other end of the foreshaft. Both point 

 and foreshaft are held in position by wooden rivets, and a sinew lash- 

 ing is wound around the junction of the foreshaft and shaft to bind 

 tLem securely in place. 



