176 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
than it has done already. The drill is of iron and the shaft of spruce, 
which was once painted with red ocher. 
No. 89497 [819] (Fig. 150) has a ferrule of coarse-grained bone neatly 
pegged on with two small pegs of the same material. This is unusual 
with steel drills. The shaft is of 
spruce and of the same shape as » 
in the preceding specimen. No. 
89595 [875] (Fig. 151) is figured to 
show the way in which the shaft 
has beenmended. A wedge-shaped 
piece 34 inches long and 0:3 to O-4 
inch wide has been split out of the 
large end and replaced by a fresh 
piece of wood neatly fitted in and 
secured by two tight whippings of 
sinew braid, each in a deep groove. - 
No. 89515 [861], figured in Point 
Barrow Report, Ethnology, Pl. 0, 
Fig. 2, is a typical bow (piziksua) 
for use with these drills. It is of 
‘walrus ivory, 16 inches long and 
ovalin section. Through each end 
is drilled a transverse hole. A 
string of seal thong 21 inches long 
is looped into one of these holes 
by passing one end of the thong 
through the hole, cutting a slit 
in it, and passing the other end 
through this. The other end is 
Hig 1" bow passed. through the other hole and 
knotted at the tip. 
These bows vary slightly in dimensions, but 
are not less than a foot or more than 16 inches 
long, and are almost always of walrus ivory. 
No. 89508 [956] (Fig. 152), is an old and rudely 
made bow of whalebone, which is more strongly 
arched than usual, and has the string attached: 
to notches at the ends instead of into holes. 
This was said to belong with an old bone drill, 
No. 89498 [956]. Both came from Nuwitk. 
These bows are often highly ornamented both 
by carving and with incised patterns colored 
with red ocher or soot. The following figures 
are introduced to show some of the different 6 1°—Bow (ut and mouth. 
styles of ornamentation. 
Fig. 153a, No. 56506 [298] is unusually broad and flat and was prob- 
ably made for a handle to a tool bag. Such handles, however, appear 
