96 THE rOINT BARROW E8KIMO. 



Fig. 28, No. .S!)(J57 [.S77J, froni Nuwuk. This i-s peculiar in liaviiij;: the 

 haft iitted into a deep angular groove on one side of the head, which i.s 

 of peetolite and oth('r\^i.•^e of the common pattern. The haft of reindeer 

 auth'r and the la.shiiig of broad thong are evidently newer than the head 

 and are clumsily made and put on, the latter nuiking several turns 



about one side of the 

 "^/- haft as well as through 



it and round the head. 



None of the unniouut- 

 (^d heads, which are all 

 of peetolite, are grooved 

 in this way to receive 

 the haft, but No. 50658 

 [205] lias two shallow, 

 incomplete grooves 

 round the middle for 

 lashings, and No. 5GC55 

 [218], which is nearly 

 ^^^^^^^^^ ^ section, has 



shallow notches on the edges for the same piupose. One specimen of 

 the series comes from Sidaru, but diflers in noway from siiecimeus fi-om 

 the northern villages. 



Stonemauls of this type have previously been seldom found among 

 the American Eskimo. The only specimens in the .Aluscum from Anu-rica 

 are two small uidiafted maul heads of peetolite, one from Hotham Inlet 

 and the other from Cape Nonui, and a roughly made maul from Norton 

 Sound, all collected by Mr. Nelson. The last is an oblong piece of dark- 

 colored jade ruilely lashed to the end of a, short thick stick, which has a 

 lateral projection round which the lashing i)asses instead of through a 



28.— Stoue maiil. 



hole ill the haft. Among the "Clmkclies" at Tithkaj, however, Nor- 

 deiiskiiild found stone mauls of jnecisely the same model as oiu-s and 

 also used as bone crushers, lie observed that the natives themselves 

 ate the crushed bone after boiling it with blood and water.' Lieut. Ray 

 saw only dogs fed with it in the interior. Nordenskiold does not men- 



1 Vega, vol. 2, p. 113 ; figures on p. 112. 



