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to be also used for drill bows. The tips of this bow represent seals 
heads, and have good sized sky-blue glass beads inserted for 
eyes. Therest of the ornamentation is incised and blackened. 
Fig. 153b, No. 89421 [1260], from Utkiavwit, is a similar bow, 
which has incised on the back figures of men and animals, 
which, perhaps, tell of some real event. Mr. L. M. Turner 
informs me that the natives of Norton Sound keep a regular 
record of hunting and other events engraved in this way upon 
their drill bows, and that no one ever ventures to falsify these 
records. We did not learn definitely that such was the rule 
at Point Barrow, but we have one bag-handle marked with 
whales, which we were told indicated the number killed by 
the owner. Fig. 153c, No. 89425 [1752], from Utkiavwin, isa 
similar bow, ornamented on the back with simply an incised 
border colored red. On the other side are the figures of ten 
bearded seals, cross-hatched and blackened. These are per- 
haps a “score.” Fig. 153d, No. 89509 [914], from Nuwik, is a 
bow of the common pattern, but ornamented by carving the 
back into a toothed keel. 
Fig. 153e, No. 89510 [961], from Utkiavywit, is ornamented 
on one side only with an incised pattern, which is blackened. 
Fig. 153f, No. 89511 [961], also from Utkiavwin, has, in addi- 
tion to the incised and blackened pattern, a small transparent 
sky-blue glass bead inlaid in the middle of the back. Fig. 
153g, No. 89512 [836], from the same place, is a flat bow with 
the edges carved into scallops. The incised line along the 
middle of the back is colored with red ocher. The string is 
made of sinew braid. 
Fig. 154, No. 89777 [1004b], which belongs in the “kit” of Fis. 151— 
It’bw’ga, the Nunataiimiun, previously mentioned, is inter- Fowl 
esting from having been lengthened 34 inches by riveting on a piece of 
reindeer antler at one end. The two pieces are neatly joined in a “lap 
splice” about 2 inches long and fastened with three iron rivets. The 
owner appears to have concluded that his drill bow was too short when 
Fig. 152.—Drill bow. 
he was at home, in the interior, where he could obtain no walrus ivory. 
The incised pattern on the back is colored with red ocher. 
The mouthpiece (ki/Nmia) consists of a block of hard stone (rarely 
iron), in which is hollowed out around cup-like socket, large enough to re- 
ceive the tip of the drill shaft, imbedded in a block of wood of a suit- 
able size to hold between the teeth. This block often has curved flanges 
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