362  SMITHSONIAN    MISCELLANEOUS    COLLECTIONS  VOL.    96 
spoiulecl  to  those  of  the  Hiule  culture.  If  we  examine  the  material 
which  has  l)een  described  and  illustrated  by  Mathiassen  (1927)  we 
find  that  the  following  characteristic  Thule  types  are  likewise  char- 
acteristic of  the  Old  Bering  Sea  and  Punuk  cultures  on  St.  Lawrence 
Island : 
Side  and  end  prongs  for  bird  darts  (Mathiassen,  1027,  pi.  2,  figs.  9-12) 
Loose  harpoon  foreshafts   (pi.  3,  fig.   i) 
Slate  harpoon  and  knife  blades  (pi.  j) 
Float  bars   (pi.  14,  fig.  9) 
Kayak  models  (pi.  14,  figs.  10,  11) 
Wedges  (pi.   16,  fig.  7) 
Knife  handles  for  end  blade   (pi.   17) 
Mattocks  (pi.  21) 
Whetstones   (pi.  16,  figs.  11-14) 
Compound  knife  handles    (pi.  22,  figs.   1-4) 
Handles  for  drill  cords   (pi.  22,  figs.  6,  7) 
Plain  ulu  handles  (pi.  23) 
Pottery   (pi.  27,  figs.   1-3) 
Baleen  vessels   (pi.  28,  fig.  10) 
Snow  goggles   (pi.  29,  fig.  3) 
Wooden  dolls   (pi.  32,  fig.  8) 
Chain  (pi.  33,  fig.  i) 
Brow  bands   (pi.  51,  figs.  6-9) 
Stone  drill  points  (pi.  49,  fig.  16) 
Ivory  fat  scraper   (pi.  53,  fig.   i) 
End  ferrule  of  bird  dart  (pi.  58,  fig.  11) 
Awls   (pi.  16,  figs.   15-17) 
Baleen  knots,  etc.  (pis.  35,  36) 
Baleen  toboggans 
Umiaks 
Thus  there  are  25  important  elements  that  are  common  to  all  three 
cultures ;  doubtless  there  are  others  also,  but  I  have  preferred  to  list 
only  those  typical  forms  of  which  the  identification  is  certain. 
The  following  Thule  features  are  present  in  the  Old  Bering  vSea, 
absent  in  the  Punuk: 
Socket  piece  with  bifurcated  tang  (Mathiassen,  1927,  vol.  i,  pi.  3.  fig.  11) 
Knobbed  grip  on  bone  knife   (pi.  13,  fig.  14) 
Knife  blades  of  chipped  stone   (pi.  44,  fig.  i) 
To  this  list  might  be  added  ice  picks,  for  the  Thule  type  with  the 
conical  tang  is  closer  to  the  Old  Bering  Sea  form  than  to  the  usual 
Punuk  form,  although  the  conical  tang  is  also  present  in  the  Punuk. 
The  following  Thule  types  are  present  in  the  Punuk  but  absent  in 
the  Old  Bering  Sea  culture : 
Thule  types  i,  2,  and  3,  harpoon  heads   (Mathiassen,  1927,  vol.   i,  pi.  i) 
Socket  piece  with  knobbed  end   (pi.  3,  figs.  9,  10) 
