igg Tlir. rOINT ISARROW ESKIMO. 



No. TiTTl [2.31 1. I'loiii Si(hini (I'iii. l.^Ort and li). is ;i liow witli Ix'iit 

 eiMl.s'lila. the last, hut all in oiw picci. ami sinall.T. Its Icu.-tl. is l.i^, 

 mchfs ami its j;icatcst bicailtli I;\. The baddii,';- has only two <-ahlfs, 

 aii.l its rhicf pc.-uhaiity is in haviii- tii.- loos,. .-n-I of the last strand 

 ),„„„„.■ of Ilir .'allies, uliih' tlie seizin- of the same jiatteni as 

 ,. of a sepal ate pieee. Tiie workmanship of this 

 how is partieularly neat, and it is furtlier 

 ij ^\ stren.ulheiied with strips of rawhide (tlie skin 



1 \\ of the I.earded seal, sjilit), under the baeking. 



'' '^-^ The method of making the string- is very inge- 



nious. It ajiiiears to have been made on the 

 IS follows: llaviiii; th,. bow sprung back 

 11,1 of a long jiiee,- of sin,-w twin,- was 

 fast t.Miiporarily t, I th,' iqiper iio,'k, leaving 

 1 long ,Miough to liiiish od' the bowstring, 

 tliereml was carried roiinil the lower noek 

 and the returning straml iialf-hitched round 

 the first snugly up to tii,' n,i,'k, and then carried 

 round the ujiper no,'k anil back again. This 

 was reii,'at,'d. ea,h stran,! being half-hitched 

 round all tli,' ]ii,'e,',ling at th,' lower nock until 

 there were eight parallel strands, and an eye 

 fitted snugly to the lower nock. Th,- bight was 

 then slipped off the upper no,'k, the end untied 

 and the whole twisted tight. This twisted 

 string is now about 2 inches too long, so the 

 uiiiier eye is made by doubling over 2 inches 

 the enil and st,ipiiiiig it down with the free 

 iitiiiiieil all, IV,'. thus making a long eye 

 of seven strands. With the end, six similar 

 strands ■.m- ailde.l to the eye, each being 

 stoiiiied to th,- twist with a half hitch. The 

 end is ni'atly tiu'ked in and the strands of the 

 eye twist, mI tigiitly tog,.ther. 



In my jiajier on Kskimo bows, already men- 

 tioned, I cam,' to th,' I'oiM'lusiou that the bows 

 formerly us,',l by the Eskimo of western North 

 America an,! the (ijiposite ,'oast of Asia were 

 eonsti'ucteil iiiMiii thre,' well defined tyjies of 

 definite geographical distribution, ami lach easily recognized as a 

 deveh.pment of a simple original type still to be found in liatlin Land 

 in a .slightly modificl tbrm. Tlies,. three types are: 



I. Th,' SoiHh,'rn typ,'. whi.'h was th,' ,iniy form uscl fn.m the island 

 of Kadiak to Cap,' I'oman/otV. ami continued in freipient use as far as 

 N.irton Sniuid. Ilioiigli s.'para,t,'(l by m, l,ar,l ami fast line frnm 



II. The Arctic type, t,i which the bows just described belong, in use 



-Large bn 



