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black slate wedged into a slot in the wooden handle, which is broad 
near the socket and tapers gradually to the grip, where it is enlarged 
to form a broad oval to rest in the palm of the hand. <A broad groove 
runs down the front of the handle, and the sides are flattened to form 
rests for the thumb and the forefinger. 
Plate xLrx, 7, from Kotzebue sound, is a short handle for a scraper, 
made of fossil mammoth ivory, with a slit in its lower end for the 
insertion of a flint blade. It is hollowed on the lower side of the bent 
upper portion to ‘receive the thumb. On the outer surface are two 
grooves for the second and third fingers. The first finger is intended to 
rest at the base of the blade. 
Plate xL1x, 8, from Kowak river, has a chisel-point, chipped flint 
blade, inserted in a plain handle of fossil mammoth ivory. Another 
specimen (number 48627), from Kotzebue sound, has a chipped flint 
blade inserted into a slot in the mammoth ivory handle, which has a 
groove on the inside for a thumb rest-and two on the upper surface for 
the first and second fingers. A deep slot on the under surface is 
intended to receive the third and fourth fingers. 
Plate xix, 14, from Hotham inlet, is a wooden handle larger than 
that last described, but grooved in the same manner to receive the 
fingers. 
Plate xLIx, 3, also from Hotham inlet, is a short handle of mam- 
moth ivory, with a slot for the insertion of a flint blade. The back of 
the handle forms a flaring edge intended, when in use, to rest on the 
under surface of the hand near the base of the thumb, while the first 
and second fingers are placed in a deep groove in front and the third 
and fourth fingers lie in a deep excavation on the under surface. 
Plate xL1x, 2, from Point Hope, is a handle made from fossil mam- 
moth ivory, with a deep groove on the inside for receiving the thumb, 
two grooves on the upper surface for the first and second fingers, and 
an excavation on the lower surface for the third and fourth fingers. 
Plate xurx, 4, from Point Hope, is a scraper consisting of a small flint 
blade fitted into a handle of inammoth ivory. On the inside is a shal- 
low depression for the reception of the thumb, and another above for 
the first and second fingers; a deep slot across the lower surface is for 
the third and fourth fingers. 
‘Plate xLIx, 9, from Point Hope, has a blade of brown flint in a wooden 
handle, which has a deep slot for the thumb on the inner side, two 
grooves for the first and second fingers on the upper surface, and a 
deep excavation below for the third and fourth fingers. 
Plate XLIx, 6, from Point Hope, is a very curious specimen, roughly 
triangular in shape; the chipped flint blade is fitted into a groove in a 
wooden handle, which has a large blue bead inlaid on-the upper part; 
on the inside is a deep slot for the reception of the point of the thumb; 
along the front of the top is a deep excavation bordered above by three 
grooves for the ends of three fingers, and on the outside a hollow for 
the little finger. 
