108 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
Figure 5, from Chalitmut, has an ivory handle terminating in two 
knobs, one above the other, and separated by a projecting beading. 
BOOT-SOLE CREASERS 
For crimping or creasing the sealskin soles of boots around the toe 
and heel, small, sharp-edged, flat-pointed pieces of ivory or bone are 
used. Sometimes these are knife-like in shape, as in figure 49, plate 
XLIV, from Siedge island, or are smooth, plain pieces like the specimen 
shown in figure 43 of the same plate, which was obtained by Doctor 
Dall from Nunivak island. 
Figure 47 of the plate referred to represents a creaser in the form of 
a walrus; the head and tusks are carved, and the flippers and certain 
other anatomical details are etched on the back of the implement. 
This specimen is also from Nunivak island. 
Plate xiv, 42, from Point Hope, is an elaborate boot creaser of this 
kind, to the upper end of which, attached by a link, is a carving repre- 
senting the head of a white bear. The body of the implement is sinuous 
nearly to the end where it is flattened to a wedge shape. 
Fic. 29—Boot-sole creaser (full size). 
Plate xLtv, 41, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made from ivory 
in the form of a knife, with a pendant attached by a link to the butt. 
Plate xxv, 50, from Cape Prince of Wales, is a creaser with a link 
at one end, to which is attached a short bodkin. 
Plate XLrv, 51, from Kotzebue sound, is a creaser made by shaping 
down the small end of a piece of bone. 
The accompanying figure 29 is an ivory boot-sole creaser from Nush- 
agak; it is triangular in cross-section, with pictures etched on the three 
sides. The side represented shows a house with smoke issuing from 
the smoke hole, an elevated storehouse to the left, and some people 
approaching with a loaded sledge from the right. 
Plate xLiv, 44, from Nunivak island, is a creaser in the form of a 
murre’s head. 
WOMEN’S KNIVES 
The knives used by Eskimo women for skinning and cutting up 
game and fish vary considerably in form. Some consist simply of a 
broad piece of slate, roughly crescentie in shape, with the curved side 
ground to a thin edge. 
Figure 8, plate xLy11, from Razbinsky, represents one of these rough 
slate knives. 
