NELSON] CHISELS—FINISHING TOOLS 87 
Plate xxxvul, 9, from Kushunuk, is another slightly curved imple- 
ment of bone, suboval in cross section and brought down to a flattened, 
rounded, wedge-shape point. The handle is wrapped with a fine rootlet 
to afford a firmer grasp for the hand, and has a round hole near the end 
for attaching a cord. ; 
Plate xxxviIl, 15, from Ikogmut, is another of these wood-working 
chisels, made of bone, having the raven totem etched on the upper 
surface and a grotesque human countenance on the end of the handle; 
just below the head it is encircled by a series of ornamental lines and 
dots. Figure 13 of the same plate, from 
Sledge island, is a similar implement. 
In the accompanying figure 24, 2, is 
shown a curved chisel of deerhorn for 
making wooden splints. It is very 
much discolored from age, and upon 
the inside of the curve are etched two 
raven totem signs. This chisel is from 
Kushunuk. 
Plate xxxyui, 18, from the lower 
Kuskokwim, is another of these tools. 
It terminates at the upper end in a 
carving which represents the head of a 
gull. Figure 24,1, from Nunivak isl- 
and, is a broad-handle chisel of bone, 
roughly crescentic in cross section. It 
has the convex upper surface covered 
with etchings representing a seal with 
anatomical details; the interspace is 
filled with a complicated mixture of 
other figures representing fishes and 
various animals and conventional signs. 
POLISHING AND FINISHING TOOLS 
For producing a smooth surface and 
for finishing woodwork of all kinds 
when it is desired to complete it with 
more than usual neatness, a variety of 
small implements of deer antler are used, in which are cut notches of 
varying form for the purpose of rubbing along the projecting angles 
and edges of the article in course of manufacture. 
Plate XXxvIIl, 7, represents an implement of this kind from Sledge 
island, having a broad notch in eachend. Plate xxxvuil, 3, obtained 
at Port Clarence by Dr T. H. Bean, is somewhat similar in character 
to the preceding. Figure 6 of this plate, from the lower Yukon, has a 
single notch in one end and along, curved handle. Figures 1,4, and 8 
are from the lower Yukon, and vary in the arrangement of the points 
Fia. 24—Wood chisels (4). 
