150 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
side of the neck. This is perhaps the commonest form of the comb, 
though it is often made with two curved arms at the top instead of a 
ring, as in Fig. 98), No. 56569 [194], or sometimes with a plain top, like 
No. 56572 [210] (Fig. 98c). Nine of the ten combs, all from Utkiavwin, 
are of walrus ivory, but No. 89785 [1006], which was the property of 
lit’bwega, the Nunatatmiun, who spent the winter of 1882783 at Utk- 
wi 
avwin, is made of reindeer antler. This was probably made in the 
interior, where antler is more plentiful than ivory. AJ] these combs are 
made with great care and patience. The teeth are usually cut with a 
saw, but on one specimen the maker used the sharp edge of a piece of 
tin, as we had refused to loan him a fine saw. This kind of comb is very 
like that described by Parry from Telvlik.! 
Fic, 98.—Hair combs. 
IMPLEMENTS FOR GENERAL USE. 
TOOLS. 
Knives.—All the men are now supplied with excellent knives of civil- 
ized manufacture, mostly butcher knives or sheath knives of various 
patterns, which they employ for numerous purposes, such as skinning and 
butchering game, cutting up food, and rough whittling. Fine whittling 
and carving is usually done with the “crooked knife,” to be described 
further on. In whittling the knife is grasped so that the blade projects 
on the wlnar side of the hand and is drawn toward the workman. A 
pocketknife, of which they have many of various patterns, is used in 
the same way. I observed that the Asiatic Eskimo at Plover Bay held 
the knife in the same manner. Capt. Lyon, in describing a man whit- 
' 2nd Voyage, p. 194, Fig. 12, Pl. opp. p. 548. 
