96 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
Fig. 28, No. 89657 [877], from Nuwitk. This is peculiar in having the 
haft fitted into a deep angular groove on one side of the head, which is 
of pectolite and otherwise of the common pattern. The haft of reindeer 
antler and the lashing of broad thong are evidently newer than the head 
and are clumsily made and put on, the latter making several turns 
about one side of the 
haft as well as through 
it and round the head. 
None of the unmount- 
ed heads, which are all 
of pectolite, are grooved 
in this way to receive 
the haft, but No. 56658 
[205] has two shallow, 
incomplete grooves 
round the middle for 
lashings, and No. 56655 
[218], which is nearly 
square in section, has 
shallow notches on the edges for the same purpose. One specimen of 
the series comes from Sidaru, but differs in no way from specimens from 
the northern villages. 
Stonemauls of this type have previously been seldom found among 
the American Eskimo. The only specimens in the Museum from America 
are two small unhafted maul heads of pectolite, one from Hotham Inlet 
and the other from Cape Nome, and a roughly made maul from Norton 
Sound, all collected by Mr. Nelson. The last is an oblong piece of dark- 
colored jade rudely lashed to the end of a short thick stick, which has a 
lateral projection round which the lashing passes instead of through a 
Fig. 27.—Stone maul. 
Fic. 28.—Stone maul. 
hole in the haft. Among the “Chukches” at Pithkaj, however, Nor- 
denski6ld found stone mauls of precisely the same model as ours and 
also used as bone crushers. He observed that the natives themselves 
ate the crushed bone after boiling it with blood and water.! Lieut. Ray 
saw only dogs fed with it in the interior. Nordenskiéld does not men- 
1 Vega, vol. 2, p. 113; figures on p. 112. 
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