198 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
No. 72771 [234], from Sidaru (Fig. 180@ and b), is a bow with bent 
ends like the last, but all in one piece and smaller. Its length is 433 
Inches and its greatest breadth 14. The backing has only two cables, 
and its chief peculiarity is in having the loose end of the last strand 
twisted into one of the cables, while the seizing, of the same pattern as 
in the last bow, is made of a separate piece. The workmanship of this 
bow is particularly neat, and it is further 
strengthened with strips of rawhide (the skin 
of the bearded seal, split), under the backing. 
The method of making the string is very inge- 
nious. It appears to have been made on the 
bow, as follows: Having the bow sprung back 
one end of a long piece of sinew twine was 
made fast temporarily to the upper nock, leaving 
an end long enough to finish off the bowstring. 
The other end was carried round the lower nock 
and the returning strand half-hitched round 
the first snugly up to the nock, and then carried 
round the upper nock and back again. This 
was repeated, each strand being half-hitched 
round all the preceding at the lower nock until 
there were eight parallel strands, and an eye 
fitted snugly to the lower nock. The bight was 
then slipped off the upper nock, the end untied 
and the whole twisted tight. This twisted 
string is now about 2 inches too long, so the 
upper eye is made by doubling over 2 inches 
of the end and stopping it down with the tree 
end mentioned above, thus making a iong eye 
of seven strands. With the end, six similar 
strands are added to the eye, each being 
stopped to the twist with a half hitch. The 
end is neatly tucked in and the strands of the 
eye twisted tightly together. 
In my paper on Eskimo bows, already men- 
tioned, I came to the conclusion that the bows 
formerly used by the Eskimo of western North 
oat ee ee bow from  SMerica and the opposite coast of Asia were 
Sidaru. constructed upon three well defined types of 
definite geographical distribution, and each easily recognized as a 
development of a simple original type still to be found in Baffin Land 
in a slightly modified form. These three types are: 
I. The Southern type, which was the only form used from the island 
of Kadiak to Cape Romanzoff, and continued in frequent use as far as 
Norton Sound, though separated by no hard and fast line from 
Il. The Arctic type, to which the bows just described belong, in use 
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