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Figure 14, plate Lx, represents a rounded bone charger from 
Hotham inlet. It has an ornamental device of circles and dots and 
the raven totem etched upon its surface. 
Figure 18, plate Lx111, from Unalaklit, has its lower end carved into 
the form of a human head. 
Figure 12, plate Lx1u, from Cape Vancouver, represents a cormo- 
rant’s head. 
Figure 11, plate Lx111, from Cape Vancouver, represents the head of 
a skua-gull, 
Figure 9, plate Lx, from Sledge island, is a cylindrical ivory 
charger with a knob on the lower end. 
Figure 13, plate Lx, from St Lawrence island, is rounded with a 
sinall, spout-like projection on the rim. 
Figure 10, plate Lx11, from Cape Vancouver, represents a falcon’s 
head. 
Figure 20, plate Lx111, from Sledge island, is a rounded bone charger 
with a wooden stopper; it is intended for carrying a charge of powder 
ready for putting in the gun when needed. 
Figure 19, plate LXx111, represents a powder flask obtained at Kotze- 
bue sound; it is made from a section of deerhorn, excavated and fitted 
with a wooden stopper at each end; one of these. is perforated and a 
small plug of wood inserted, by removing which an inlet is formed 
for the powder. A charger of deerhorn is attached to the flask by a 
sinew cord. 
Figure 23, plate Lx111, from Cape Vancouver, is a wooden powder 
flask in the form of a sea parrot’s head. The small end at the neck is 
bound together with sinew lashings, and a rounded stopper is fitted in 
the hole. 
Figure 22, plate Lx111, from Nulukhtulogumut, shows a small, leather- 
covered flask with an ivory mouthpiece in which a wooden stopper is 
fitted; to this is attached an ivory charger in the shape of a cormorant’s 
head. With this charger is a small ivory disk, having a conical perfora- 
tion in the center, which is intended to be placed over the nipple of the 
gun for priming it. 
The form of both of the preceding flasks is an imitation of those 
sold by the fur traders. 
Figure 21, plate Lx, from Sledge island, is a wooden powder flask 
with the sides carved in a twining pattern. 
Tigure 32, plate Lx111, from Norton bay, is a wooden flask fitted at 
each end with an ivory cover and having an iron tip at the nozzle. 
The Eskimo of Plover bay on the Siberian shore and on St Lawrence 
island, as well as those along the shores of Bering strait and thence up 
the Alaskan coast to Point Barrow, are successful hunters of the right 
whale; for this purpose the old-fashioned barbed spear is the weapon 
ordinarily used, but it is being superceded by firearms wherever the 
people have been able to obtain them. At Plover bay the natives had 
