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for a socket a piece uf iron M inches s(|uarc. IkiHowcc 

 Tbe outside of the wood has hccn ]iaintfd willi red <>cl 

 mostly worn off. This iiiontlipicce lich)n-vd lo nri'l)w'"a 



Fig. 15G, No. 89505 [802 j, from 

 Utkia\-M-tri, represents tlie pat- 

 teru which is perhaps lather 

 commoner than the ])rececling. 

 The wood, which holds the 

 socket of black and white sy- 

 enite, is simply an elliptical 

 block of spruce. The remain- *'" '''' 



ing three specimens are of the same jiatterii and of the saine mat 

 the last, except No. .S!l,")(»7 |!tOS|, from Nnwilk, in whi<li tlie wood is d 

 As it appears very old, this wood may have come from the rionr. 



When not in use, the point of the drill is sometimes protected wit 

 sheath. One such sheath was obtained, No. 89447 [1112], fig- 

 ured in Point Barrow Eeport, Ethnology, PI. ii. Fig. 1. It is £\ 

 of walrus ivory, 3-6 inches long. The end of a piece of thong 

 is passed through the eye and the other part fastened round m i 

 the open end with a marline hitch, catching down the end. 

 This leaves a lanyard Oj inches long, which is hitched or 

 knotted round the .shaft of the drill when the sheath is fitted 

 over the point. 



The drills above described are used for perforating all sorts 

 of material, wood, boue, ivory, metal, etc., and are almost the 

 only boring implements used, even 

 awls being unusual. Before the in- 

 troduction of iron, the i)oint was made 

 of one of the small bones from a seal's l 

 leg. Wc obtained four specimens of '^ 

 tlicsc hone drills, of which two, at 

 t, ajipcar to be genuine. No. 

 Fio. i56.-i)riii „M.uthp„;.c« wui,- s'.it'.is |!»,-.(;|, Fig. 157, Is oue of thcse, 



""'"■'"""■ from Nnwiik. The shaft is of the ! 



ordinaiy i)attern and made of some hard wood, but the point 

 is a roughly cylindrical rod of bone, expanding at the point, 

 where it is convex on one face and concave on tlie other and 

 beveled on both faces into (wo cutting edges, which meet in 

 an acute angle. The larger end of the shaft has been split 

 and mended by whipping it for about three-quarters of an 

 inch with sinew braid. No. S'.ioLS [1174], is ai)i)arently also 

 genuine, and is like the preceding, but beveled only on the 

 cimcave face of the jioint, \\ iiicli is rather obtuse. No. 8951!) j,,„ ,5-_ 

 [1258] was made for the market. It has a rude shaft of whale's Ucm'immW 

 bone, l)ut a carefully made bone point of precisely the pattern '"""' 

 of the mod(>rn iron ones. No. S<.I52() [1 182J lias no shaft, and appears to 

 be an old uuliuished drill fitted into a carelessly made bone ferrule. 



