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THK POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 



It goes anmiid in this way sfvcii times, ami then is carried one 

 farthev, half hitclieil a.uaiii. and the end taken down and made 

 I the first narrow hisliinj;-. Tlie shaft is painted with red oeher 

 lin i;U inches (the h'listh of the throwius board) from the butt, 

 s an old sliait and head fitted with new prongs, and was made 

 ;awa'alu. wiio was anxious to borrow it again when getting ready 

 ■t on his suMinier t rip to the east, where he wouUl find yonng ducks 

 olting fowl. 



fDiin of head seen in this dart appears to be tlie commonest. 

 Ulfd by the same name, nii'tkau, as the boue head of the deer 

 arrow. There is considerable variation in the number of 

 barbs, wliieh are always bilateral, except in one 

 instance, Xo. 56590 [122J, Fig. 190, from Utkiav- 

 w i fi. whicli has four barbs on one side only. It is 

 7j inclies long exclusive of the tang. Out of 

 eight specimens of such heads one has one pair of 

 baibs. <in(' two pair.s, two three pairs, one four 

 unilateral barbs, one five pairs, one si \ (lairs. and 

 one seven pairs. The total length of these heads 

 is from it inches to 1 foot, of which the taug makes 

 about 1' inches, and they are generally made of 

 walrus i\oiy, wherein they differ from the nugflt 

 of the (ireenlanders, which, since Crantz's time' 

 has always had a head of iron. Iron is also used 

 at Cumberland Gidf, as shown by the sp.'cimens 

 in the National Musueni. Fig. IHT represents 

 a very ancient spearhead from rtkiavwih. Xo. ;] 



SiiMTL' [T(i(l|. it is of compact whale's bone, dark- 

 ened with age and impregnated with oil. It is 

 s-7 inches long and the other end is beveled off 

 into a wedge-shaped tang roughened with cross- • , 



cuts on both fiiees, with a small hole for the end 

 of a lashing as on the head of No. 89244 [1325]. 

 Tliis was called by the native who sold it the 

 head of a seal spear, fl'kqlTgfdc, and it does bear 

 some slight resemblance to the head of weapon 

 used in (Ireenland :uid called by a similar name^ 

 (agdligak). The roughened tang, howev.'r, indi- 

 <-ates that it was intendi'd to be fixed pi'riiianently 

 in the shaft, and this, taken in .■onnecti.m witl] 

 ^llri.'.ni.ur'r'' il^ strong r.'semblance to the one-barbed head of 



the (Ireenland nugfit^ as well as to the head of the Siberian 

 bird dart figured by N'ordenskioIdS makes it probable that it is really 

 tbc for f binl dart head anciently used at Point Barrow. It is pos- 



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