>"^^™««1 BLllJHEK HOOKS, F.TC. 311 



The whole is old an.l watl.civ.l Mii.i larlicr .uicasy ;il.iiut I lie piu„u .ii:d 

 the tip of the pole. 



Fig. 312 (X<..Sits:!(;[12(»;il from rtkiavwin) is a siniihir k with a 



short haucUe, .'U inches lon.u. for use on land. Tiie erook is p--, 

 made by bending the handle. The jtrong. of walrns ivory as jp 

 before, is 7 inches hnig. and held on by two stoul lashings of \^ 

 whalebone, which pass round the end of the handle instead of 

 through it. The prong and tip of the handle are very gi easy. 



Xo. 89837 [1353], from tlu' same village, is a similar iiook 

 rather rudely made. The crook is bent only at au angle of 

 about 4.")^, and there is somewhat of a twist to the whole han- 

 dle. The prong, which is of antler, is 7i| inches long and shoul- 

 dered at the butt lik" tliat of the Ion- hook described. It is 

 fastened on by two thick lashings of stont seal thong passing 

 around prong and handle and kept from slipjiing by notches 

 in the latter, and on the butt end of the fainer and by a large 

 flat-headed brass stud di ivcn into the prong below the upjier 

 lashing. 



Fish sckIci:— Fig. :u:\ (No.s'Udl [1279] from rtkiavwiu) rep- 

 resents a little implement which we never saw in use, but which 

 we were told was intended for scraping tiie scales off a tish. 

 The specimen does not a])pear to be newly mad.'. It is a piece 

 of hollow "long" bone, S inches long, cut into the shape of the 

 blade of a case knife, flat on one face with a broad, shallow, 

 lougitudinal groove on the other. 



MAKI.N(i A.NI) WOKKINd FIBEK. 



Twisting and hraidiii;/ — We had uo opportunity of seeing the p„. ^ 



process of twisting the sinew twine, which is sometimes used Fixh scait-r. 



in place of the braid so often mentioned but mr)re generally when an 



extra strong tlirea<l is desired, as in sewing on boot soles. Fig. 314 (Xo. 



89431 [1332] from I'tkiavwifi) is a little shuttle of walrus ivory, 3 inches 



long and l.\ Inoad, which we were tohl was used in this 



W process. The body of this shuttle is reduced to a narrow 



' * crosspiece. and the i>rongs at one end are twice as long as 



those at the ol her. The tii)s of the long prongs are about ^ 



inch apart, wliile tliose of the shoit ones nearly nn'ct. There 



is a small round hole in one si.le ot the body. This s])eci- 



men was made for sale. As well as 1 couhl under.stand the 



seller, the ends of several strands of tine sinew were fhs- 



1 .■ ,/ teued into the hole in the shuttle and twisted by twisting 



\/^ it with one hand, while the other end was held iierhajis by 



riG.3i4.-ivurv tlie other hand. The part twisted was then w.-unil on tiie 



'shuui... shuttle and a fresh length twistcil. Tins wonhi lie a very 



simple form of .si)inning with a si)indle. 



No special implements for twisting have lieen described anioiLg other 



