178 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
on each side, which rest against the cheeks. Such mouthpieces are 
common all along the coast from the Anderson River to Norton Sound, 
as is Shown by the Museum collection, No, 89500 [800], figured in Point 
Barrow Report, Ethnology, Pl. 1, Fig. 3, is a type of the flanged mouth- 
piece. The block is of rine, carved into a thick, broad arch, with a 
large block on the inside. Into the top of the arch is inlaid a piece of gray 
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Fia. 153.—Drill bows. 
porphyry with black spots, which is slightly convex on the surface, so as 
to project a little above the surface of the wood. In the middle of the 
stone is a cup-shaped cavity one-half inch in diameter and of nearly the 
same depth. This is a rather large mouthpiece, being 6 inches across 
from one end of the arch to the other. 
Fic. 154.—Spliced drill bow. 
There are two otherspecimens of the same pattern, both rather smaller. 
No. 89503 [891], Fig. 150, from Nuwitk, has the stone of black and white 
syenite. This specimen is very old and dirty, and worn through to the 
stone on one side, where the teeth have come against it. No. 89787 
[1004¢], Fig. 155, is almost exactly the same shape as the type, but has 
