NELSON} SHOVELS, PICKS, AND MALLETS 79 
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piece of the jawbone of a whale, worked down to a thin, flat blade, 
roughly rounded in outline. Onits upper edge is a projection to which 
a stout wooden handle is fastened by means of a strong lashing of 
rawhide, which passes through two grooves and two holes in the blade. 
Figure 22, 1, from Ikogmut, is a wooden shovel with a long, flat blade 
and curved handle carved from one piece. The back surface of the 
blade is slightly convex, with a medium ridge which extends upward to 
the handle. The back and the 
portion of the handle where 
held are painted red. On the 
inner surface of the blade, 
near the handle, is the private 
mark of the owner, consisting 
of an incised circle and two 
straight grooves extending ob- 
liquely outward from its upper 
edge to the shoulders of the 
blade. 
Plate xxxv, 1, represents an 
ice pick obtained at Point Bar- 
row. It is made from a small 
walrus tusk attached to a flat 
wooden handle by strong raw- 
hide lashing passed through a 
hole in the handle and two 
holes in the butt of the pick. 
The handle is wrapped in two 
places with braided sinew cord, 
to afford a firm grip for both 
hands, above which are slight 
projections of the wood to pre- 
vent it from slipping. 
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MALLETS 
Mallets of wood or deerhorn 
are used for breaking ice from 
the framework of fish traps 
and sledge runners, for driving small pegs, and for other similar 
purposes, 
Figure 23, 1, from Sabotnisky, is a deerhorn mallet about 12 inches 
in length, with one end worked down to a flattened handle and the 
other having a rounded knob truncated upon one face. The handle is 
pierced for the reception of a rawhide cord, by means of which the 
mallet can be suspended from the wrist. 
Figure 23,5, from Ikogmut, is a small wooden mallet with a slender 
rod-like handle about 53 inches in length; the head is made from a 
Fic. 23— Mallets (4). 
