92 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT (ETH. ANN, 18 
Plate xxx1x, 14, from Norton sound, is a wooden-handle adz, with 
a deerhorn head in which is fitted a point of hard, greenish-colored 
stone, ground to a sharp edge. Plate xxx1x, 10, also from Norton 
sound, is another wooden-handle adz, with a deerhorn head in which 
is fitted a small, greenstone point, with a smoothly ground edge. 
These two specimens are hafted in the style commonly employed before 
iron was brought to the country by the Russians. 
A considerable variety of stone blades or celts for use as adzes was 
obtained from points between the lower Kuskokwim and Kotzebue 
sound. 7 
Plate XXx1x, 12, from Sledge island, is a fine large celt of nephrite, 
measuring 9 inches in leugth, 3 inches in width, and an inch and a 
quarter in thickness; it is roughly quadrate in cross section, and the 
point is smoothly beveled on both sides to a chisel-shape edge. Plate 
XXXIX, 8, from Cape Prince of Wales, is a small adz blade of nephrite 
intended for setting into the bone or deerhorn head of the implement. 
Plate xxx1x, 3, from Cape Nome, is a pale, olive-greenish colored stone 
adz, having two grooves around its upper end to admit rawhide lash- 
ings, by means of which it can be attached directly to a haft. 
Plate xxxrx, 11, from the lower Kuskokwim, is a curiously shaped 
celt, partly ground and partly pecked into shape; the point is roughly 
flattened on one side and oval on the other. A groove is pecked 
around the upper part of the head, by means of which, with the 
shoulder lower down on the same face, the head is attached directly 
to the handle and secured by rawhide lashings. 
Plate Xxx1x, 13, represents a celt from the lower Yukon, somewhat 
similar in style to the last specimen. Plate xxx1x, 9, from the lower 
Yukon, is an adz head made from slate. 
Figure 1 of the same plate is an adz handle from the lower Yukon, 
made from reindeer antler. It has been sawed from the lower end ~ 
nearly to the head, and a piece of wood inserted for the purpose of 
enlarging the shaft and affording a better grip for the hand. Another 
piece of horn, having a slot in the lower end for the reception of a 
stone blade, is bound firmly to it by rawhide cords. 
On one of the Diomede islands a piece of nephrite was obtained from 
which ax heads had been cut. It was said to have been brought from the 
Kaviak peninsula. It measures 94 inches broad and 24 inches in thick- 
ness. The longest edge is smoothly polished and has a coarse groove 
down the center, showing where a roughed-out celt has been detached. 
Nephrite is used largely for making whetstones; slate is also in com- 
mon use for this purpose, and other hard stones are occasionally 
employed. A nephrite whetstone from Kotzebue sound (plate Lxy, 1) 
has a deep longitudinal groove on each side, terminating in a hole 
through which is passed a loop of sealskin for attaching the implement 
to the waist belt. 
Figure 25, 5, shows a smaller stone of similar character from Unalak- 
lit. The specimen shown in figure 25, 4, was obtained on St Lawrence 
