220 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
hind this it is narrowed and then widened into a broad flat base pro- 
duced on one side into a sharp barb, in the same plane as the other barb, 
which represents the blade, but on the opposite 
side. The line hole is large and irregularly tri- 
angular, and there are no line grooves. Instead 
of a shaft socket bored in the solid body, one 
side of the body is excavated into a deep longi- 
tudinal groove, which was evidently converted 
into a socket by a transverse band, probably 
of sealskin, running round the body, and kept 
in place by a shallow transverse groove on the 
convex side of it. A harpoon head with the 
socket made by inclosing a groove with thongs 
was seen by Dr. Kane at 
Smith Sound.! 
The next form, No. 89331 
[932], Fig. 209a, has two 
bilateral barbs to the blade 
part, thus increasing its 
holding power. Instead of 
an open transverse groove 
Wie. 208 -Harpoon head@: (a) ane LO hold the thong, it has 
cient bone harpoon head; (6) va- two slots parallel to the 
Se ee ea socket groove running ob- 
liquely to the other side, where they open into a 
Shallow depression. Figs. 209b and 210, Nos. 89544 
[1419] and 89377 [766], are variants of 
this form, probably intended for the 
larger seal, as the blade part is very 
long in proportion. No. 89544 [1419] is io, 210. Rete haspeon 
interesting from its close resemblance head. 
to the spear head figured by Nordenski6ld2 from the ancient 
“Onkilon” house at North Cape. No. 89377 [766] is a pe- 
cular form, which was perhaps not general, as it has left 
no descendants among the modern harpoon. Instead of the 
bilateral blade barbs it has an irregular slot on each side, 
which evidently served to hold a blade of stone, and the 
single barb of the body is replaced by a cluster of four, 
which are neither in the plane of the blade nor at right 
angles to it, but between the two. No modern harpoon 
heads from Point Barrow have more than two barbs on the 
body. The next improvement was to bore the shaft socket 
Fig. 211._Bone Instead of making it by inclosing a groove with thongs. 
harpoon head. This is Shown in Fig. 211 (No. 89379 [795], from Utkiavwin), 
which is just like No. 89544 [1419] except in this respect. The line 
grooves first appear at this stage of the development. 
' Second Grinnell Exp., vol. 1, Figs. on pp. 412 and 413. 2 Vega, vol. 1, p. 444, Fig. 5. 
