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it ICIIK 

 tlie so 



from rtkiavwin ) is mail 



worked than the ivory. ; 



upper side flat is readily <arv<'(l tint. 



natural ciu-ve of the material i;ivi's tlie ] 



It is lS-3 inches louj^-. 



When the umiak is lifted nut for wlia 

 ivory or boue, about 7 iuelies louy- and 

 giiu wales where they meet at the bov 

 rests when they are approaching a 

 whaling. The iluseum collection coiit; 

 as far south as the Diomede Islands. 



We brought home five specimens of t 

 [117 1 Fig^ 347 has been selected as 

 the type. This is made of two bilat- 

 erally symmetrical pieces of white wal- 

 rus ivory, eacli piece consisting of one 

 arm of the crotch and half the shank. 

 Its total length is 7-S inches. The two 

 pieces are held together by a stout 

 wooden tree-nail, and above this a 

 lashing of sinew-braid, lodged in two 

 deep vertical channels one on each 

 side of the shank Just below the arms, 

 and wedged above and below on both 

 sides with slips of wood. A hole is 

 drilled through each side of the butt 

 close to the end, and through these a 

 lashing is stretched across the reen- 

 tering angle of the butt consisting of 

 four tuTTis of sinew braid with the end 

 closely wrajjped round the parts between the 



Just at the bend of each ariri is a small n 

 ol)ii.|Uely IVoui the back to the outer side, 

 becket. aliout ■■} inches Ion-, made of severa 





<hinus te 



att 



thee 

 the 1 



mental tigures are 

 Three ot the rei 

 essentially the sani 

 minor details. Xo. 

 the type and of ve 

 a lashing onlv, but 



lioles, and n(nitly tucked in. 

 lUiid becket hole, running 

 In each of the.se is a neat 

 turns of sinew braid, with 

 receive 



. These beckets servt 

 to the gunwales. W 



idling the 

 iicised and Wackened. 



aining four speciimMis arc of walrus-ivory, and of 

 l.attern, differing only in ornamentation and other 

 r,V,r,ll |ll(i], from rtkiavwin, is almost exactly like 

 \- nearly the same size. It is fa.stened together with 

 no treenail, and the beckets have been removed from 



th 

 tw 



tips (1 

 ll-'l 

 those 



becket holes. The b.inh 

 wliales' tails instead of . 



, Fig. :!4S. 

 already dc 



om I'tkiav 

 ribed. but 



with 

 lank. 

 of M 



is lashed togeth 



■ed ocher, and there are 

 The other two have the 

 lales^ heads. No. 81I41S 



ith stout 



