"™°°™1 DEILL-COUI) HANDLES. ISl 



head of some animal, perhaps a wolf, with bits of ilaik wodil inl;iid for 

 eyes. The eye is a simple large transverse hole tlirou-h Die (hi.'li 



Fig. 158c (No. 89455 [020] from Nuwuk), is 5-0 iiiHu^s Ion-. 'I'h.. ,.y.., 

 is drilled lengthwise through a huge Imiip jiroiccfing fidm n,,. middle 

 of one side. Small blue beads are inlaid for (lie eyes, and one lo indi 

 cate the male genital opening. 



Fig. 158(1 (No. 89-1.5G \m)] from Xiiwftk) is like No. -.(;.-,l'7 |l';i|, but 

 represents the left foot and is not so artistically carved. It is .'.-T inches 

 long. 



Fig. 15Se (No. 80457 [025] from Nuwfik) is 4-7 inch.'s l,m-, and re- 

 sembles No. 894.55 [020|, but has instea.l of tlie seal's tail ainl lli|ipeis 

 a large ovoid knob ornamented with incised and blackened rings. The 

 "eye" is bored transversely. 



Fig. 158/ (No. 894.5S [835] from ITtkiavwin) diifers from No. .S!)155 [025 j 

 in having a transverse eye, and being less artistically carved. Hits of 

 lead are inlaid for the eyes. It is 4-4 inches h)ug. The name of tins 

 implement is kfiTi-i. 



We obtained six specimens of an old flint tool, consisting of a rather 

 long thick blade mounted in a straight halt aliout 10 inches hiug,of 

 which we had some difficulty in ascertaining the use. We were at last 

 able to be quite- sure that they were intended for drilling, or rather 

 reaming out, the large cavity in the Itase of the ivory head of a whale 

 harpoon, which fits upon tlui conical tip of the fore-shaft. The shape 

 of tlie blade is well fitted for this i)urpose. It is not unlikely that such 

 tools, worked as these are, by hand, preceded the bone drills for boring 

 all sorts of objects, and that the habit of using them for making the 

 whale harpoon was kept up from the same conservatism founded on 

 superstition which surrounds the whole whale fi.shery. (See under 

 "Whale fishing," where tlu^ sid)ject will be more fully discussed.) No. 

 80G2(! |87()|, (igured in I'o.nt Harrow Report, Ethnology, I'l. II, Fig. 4, 

 is a typical implcmeni of tliis class (itatui, i'tugetsau'). The blade is 

 of black flint, flaked, 2 iiicIk's long, indx'dd.'d in the end of a haft of 

 spruce, l()-5 inches long. Th.' l)la(lc is held in place by whii>ping the 

 cleft end of the haft with sinew l)raid. 



Two of the othei' specimens. No. SO(;27 |0;J7| and No. 80(528 |012], are 

 of essentially the same pattern and material, but have rounded hafts. 

 No. 80(120 |0(;()jan(l Xo. .S0(;;.!0 | l()(;s|. Figs. i:,'.)a, 150/;, have blades of the 

 same pattern, but have hafts fitted for use with the niouth|iiece and 

 bow, showing that somi^tinu'S, at least in later times, these tools were so 

 used. No. 80G25 [1217] (Fig. ICO) has no halt, but the blade, which is 

 rather narrow in proportion to its length (2-.'$ inches by 0-5), is fitted 

 into a shortferruh^ of antler, with a little dovetail on the edge for attach- 

 ing it to the haft. 



Of awls we saw oidy one si)ecimen, which, iit>rh;!]is, ought rathei- to 

 be considered a little hand drill. This is No. SO.iO.S [1202], I-'ig. Kil, 

 from Utkiavwifi. The jioint is the tip of a common three-cornered hie, 



