NELSON] POWDER CHARGERS 165 



Figure 14, plate LXiii, represents a rounded bone charger from 

 Hotham inlet. It has an ornamental device of circles and dots and 

 the raven totem etched upon its surface. 



Figure 18, plate lxiii, from Unalaklit, has its lower end carved into 

 the form of a human head. 



Figure 12, plate lxiii, from Cape Vancouver, represents a cormo- 

 rant's head. 



Figure 11, plate lxiii, from Cape Vancouver, represents the head of 

 a skua- gull. 



Figure 9, plate lxiii, from Sledge island, is a cylindrical ivory 

 charger with a knob on the lower end. 



Figure 13, jilate lxiii, from St Lawrence island, is rounded with a 

 small, spout-like jirojection on the rim. 



Figure 10, plate lxiii, from Cape Vancouver, represents a falcon's 

 head. 



Figure 20, plate lxiii, from Sledge island, is a rounded bone charger 

 with a wooden stopper; it is intended for carrying a charge of jjowder 

 ready for putting in the gun when needed. 



Figure 19, plate lxiii, represents a powder flask obtained at Kotze- 

 bue sound; it is made from a section of deerhorn, excavated and fitted 

 with a wooden stopper at each end; one of these is perforated and a 

 small plug of wood inserted, by removing which an inlet is formed 

 for the powder. A charger of deerhorn is attached to the flask by a 

 sinew cord. 



Figure 23, plate lxiii, from Cape Vancouver, is a wooden powder 

 flask in the form of a sea parrot's head. The small end at the neck is 

 bound together with sinew lashings, and a rounded stopper is fitted in 

 the hole. 



Figure 22, plate lxiii, from Nulukhtulogumut, shows a small, leather- 

 covered flask with an ivory mouthpiece in which a wooden stopper is 

 fitted; to this is attached an ivory charger in the shape of a cormorant's 

 head. With this charger is a small ivory disk, having a conical perfora- 

 tion in the center, which is intended to be placed over the nipple of the 

 gun for priming it. 



The form of both of the preceding flasks is an imitation of those 

 «old by the fur traders. 



Figure 21, plate lxiii, from Sledge island, is a wooden powder flask 

 with the sides carved in a twiniug pattern. 



Figure 32, plate lxiii, from Norton bay, is a wooden flask fitted at 

 each end with an ivory cover and having an iron tip at the nozzle. 



The Eskimo of Plover bay on the Siberian shore and on St Lawrence 

 island, as well as those along the shores of Bering strait &nd thence up 

 the Alaskan coast to Point Barrow, are successful hunters of the right 

 whale; for this purpose the old-fashioned barbed spear is the weapon 

 ordinarily used, but it is being superceded by firearms wherever the 

 people have been able to obtain them. At Plover bay the natives had 



