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MARLINSPIKES 
Marlinspikes are used for tying and slipping meshes while making 
nets; they also serve for slipping meshes to enlarge or to reduce their 
size when it is desired to change the uses of nets. 
Figure 21, plate LXx1lI, illustrates a large marlinspike, from Raz- 
binsky. It is made from reindeer horn, tapers to a blunt end, and has 
the upper end forked. 
Figure 18, plate LXx11, shows an implement, from the lower Kusko- 
kwim, similar to the last mentioned but smaller in size. A curved mar- 
linspike from Pastolik (figure 17, plate Lxx11) is made of ivory and is 
oblong in cross sec- 
tion. Another exam- 
ple, from Cape Nome 
(figure 19, plate Fig. 56—Ivory marlinspike (3). 
LXXII), has an ivory 
point fitted into a slot in a wooden handle and held in place by a 
rawhide lashing. 
Figure 16, plate LXX11, represents a marlinspike from Norton sound; 
it is made of ivory and is double pointed; it is nearly plain on two 
sides and convex on the other. A line of walrus is etched upon one 
side, houses on another, and a conventional pattern ornaments the 
third. 
Figure 56 shows a marlinspike used for slipping knots in large nets. 
It is from Nunivak island and is round in shape, the handle terminat- 
ing in a figure of the head of a murre, with the mouth, nostrils, and 
eyes marked by incised lines. A marlinspike from Norton sound 
(figure 57) has a bone point set in a slot in the wooden handle and held 
in position by lashings of spruce root. The example from Cape Nome 
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Fic. 57—Marlinspike with bone point (3). 
(figure 20, plate LXxi1) has a large, blunt point at one end and at the 
other a small, spur-like point which serves for loosening knots. 
Figure 15, plate LXXI, represents a marlinspike from Kotzebue 
sound; it is a long, slender rod of ivory, triangular in cross section, 
having all its surfaces ornamented with etched figures of whales, wal- 
rus, and hunting scenes. A specimen from the lower Yukon has a 
round ivory point set in a wooden handle and held in place by a lashing 
of sinew cord. 
REELS 
Several forms of reels are employed for holding the small cord used 
in making nets. 
Figure 24. plate LXXII, represents one of these reels from Norton 
sound. Itis neatly grooved; at the tips of the arms of the fork at one 
end are two seal-heads, and the hind-flippers are at the other end; a 
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