158 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
Figure 1, plate LXLa, shows one of two arrows from St Lawrence island, 
both of which have long, pointed, triangular heads of ivory, the butts 
of which are set in slots in the wooden shafts and fastened by sinew 
lashings. The shafts have their fore ends triangular in continuation 
of the shape of the points, but toward the butt they become round, 
and are flattened as they approach the end. One of these shafts is 
broadly flattened as an aid to the feathering in guiding its flight; the 
other was feathered upon both sides of the flattened butt, but the 
feathering has been lost. 
Figures 4 and 6, plate LXiIa, are ivory-pointed arrows from St Law- 
rence island. 
Figure 2, plate Lxia, represents an arrow from St Lawrence island, 
having a long, triangular point of ivory with four notches on one side 
of the point without barbing, except on the hindmost, where the point 
is cut to a wedge-shape for insertion in a slot in the wooden shaft. This . 
shaft has two feathers from a cormorant tail, fastened in the usual 
manner, 
Figure 8, plate Lx1a@, shows an arrow obtained on Nunivak island by 
Doctor Dall. It has a long bone point with three notches on the side 
and a groove running along their bases, thus marking the arrow as 
belonging to a man of the wolf totem. The point is inserted in a hole 
in the shaft, which is wound with sinew lashing; it has three feathers 
near the are held in position by a sinew cord. 
Figure 3, ne LXIa, shows an arrow from St Lawrence island, with 
a long, flattened bone point with a strong barb on one surface and 
grooved along the other. There are two tail-feathers of a cormorant 
on the flattened sides of the shaft near the butt. 
Figure 7, plate Lx1a, shows an arrow obtained at St Michael by Mr 
L. M. Turner. The point is of bone, triangular in cross-section, but 
becoming round near the butt, where it is inserted in the shaft and held 
in place by a sinew lashing. The butt of the shaft is not feathered. 
Figure 10, plate Lx1a, represents an arrow obtained by Doctor Dall 
from Nunivak island; it has a foreshaft of bone, is suboval in cross- 
section, with a single strong notch and barb on one side and a thin, 
triangular tip of iron inserted in a notch at the top. It has three 
halves of feathers at equal intervals around the butt, fastened in the 
usual manner, q 
Figure 11, plate Lxra, from St Lawrence island, has a bone fore- 
Shaft in which. a triangular point is inserted, and two cormorant 
feathers near the butt of the shaft. 
Figure 12, plate Lx1a, from St Lawrence island, has a bone fore- 
Shaft set on the shaft in an unusual manner. The foreshaft has a 
wedge-shape slot in which the wooden shaft is inserted, and an iron 
point is fixed in a slot in the other end of the foreshaft. Both point 
and foreshaft are held in position by wooden rivets, and a sinew lash- 
ing is wound around the junction of the foreshaft and Bhatt to bind 
them securely in place. 
