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;.L'IM), No. S!»;!S(»|.;i.! 

 lu-ad. (lark brown li 



ESKIMO, 

 vcrvancioiit i 



'^f^ r.'sctiilil.' 



I.. .Msl an. I lolx 



wiial ivory 

 1 shiny from much liamllinj;-, which 

 ninlct. It was said to liave come 

 i,o- t:) a bird dart, thou,i;li it does m)t 

 ■ at the i)rcs«'ntdayin tliis region. It is a 

 (id, havint;- on one side three short oblique 

 liarbs. The resemblaiiceof this specimen 

 cads from Scania figured by Dr. Eau' is 



Snil ihuis.—Thv Eskimo ot nearly all localities use a dart 

 or small harpoon to ca])tnie the smaller maiine animals, with 

 a loose, harhed head of bone fitted into a socket in Iheendof 

 the sliafl. to which it is attached by a line of -reatei- or less 

 length. It is always <-ontrived so that when the head is 

 struck into the quarry, the shaft is detached from the bead 

 and acts as a drag upon the animal. This is effected by 

 ' dinrh^^" iittaehing an inflated bladder to the shaft, or else by attacli- 

 d,-irtiiMd. j,)o- thi; line with a martingale so that the shaft is dragged 

 .sideways through the water. Nearly all P]skimo except those of Point 

 liarrow, as shown in the National Muscnm collections and the figures 

 in Crantz- and Kink-', use weapons of this kin<l of considcrabh- size. 



adapted not only to the capture of the 

 I'./atidu), but also to the pursuit of tl 

 whal and beluga. At Point IJarrow, 1 

 day, they employ only a small form of t 



■;mall seals {I'hoai ritiili 

 ■ larger seals, the nar- 

 iwcver, at the iiresent 

 is dart, not over 5 feet 

 r holdin- the smallest 



weapon is shown 

 (1 of sui'h a si)ear. 



seals. That Ihcy formerly used the la: 



by lair finding a single s[)ecimen of the 



No.Sil.-iTt [li'SIJ Fig.iiOl. It is of hard, compact bom-. imi>reg 



nated with oil. S-l inches long. The flat shank is evidently 



intended to tit into a socket. The two holes through the widest 



Itart of the shank are for attaching the line. 



This is very like th<' hca<l of\he weajion <'alled ,i(/Iiii((l- 

 (mo(h-rn Greenhmdic a,i;<lligak). fignred by Crantz, and're- 

 ferred to above. cnccjiI tliat the barbs arc opposite each other. 

 Mr. laicien :\r. Turner tells me that it is precisely like the head 

 of the dart used at Norton Sound for capturing the beluga. The 

 native who sold tliis specimen called it "uuia'kpai uii'tkoa," 

 "tlie jioint of a bird dart." to which it does bear some resem- 

 blance, though the shape of the butt and the line holes indicate 

 l.laiidy that it was a drtavhahir (bu t head. Probably, as in the Bo^i^art 

 case of the ancient bird dai t point, Xo. .S'.t.iTi; [TOO], referred to ''""i- 

 above, this weai)on has been so long disused that the natives have 

 forgotion what it was. The name a'kqliguk, evidently the same as the 



' I'n-liistorii; fishiiiK, Kigs. 91 and 95, p. 73. 



■' llislory of (i,r,T.Ini,d, vnl. 1. ,,. 147, PI. v, Figs. 6 .and 7. 



