MURDOCH.] FIRE MAKING. 289 
Fig. 281 (No, 89782 [1004e]) is one of these tools, very neatly made, 
with a haft of reindeer antler and a bone blade, se- 
cured by a whipping of seal thong which belongs 
with the “kit” of tools owned by the “inland” na- 
tive, Dli/bw’ga. Mr. Nelson collected a number of 
specimens of this tool at various points on the north- 
west coast from Point Hope as far south as Norton 
Bay, but I can find no evidence of its use elsewhere. 
FIRE MAKING, 
Drills.—In former times fire was obtained in the 
method common to so many savages, from the heat 
developed by the friction of the end of astick worked 
like a drill against a piece of soft wood. This in- 
strument was still in use at least as late as 1837,! but 
appears to have been wholly abandoned at Point 
Barrow at the time of the Plover’s visit, though still 
in use at Kotzebue Sound.’ Fic. 281.—Flint flaker 
A native of Nuwitk one day brought down for sale “'t bene Pade. 
what he said was an exact model of the ancient fire drill, niootin. Thisis 
No. 89822 [1080], Fig. 282. The drill isastick of pine 12 inches long, shaped 
like the shaft of acommon perforating drill, brought toa blunt but rounded 
Fic, 282.—Fire drill with mouthpiece and stock. 
point. This is worked bya string, without bow or handles, consisting 
of a strip of the skin of the bearded seal, 40 inches long, and has for a 
mouthpiece the astragalus bone of a reindeer, the natural hollow on one 
manner of a drill.’’"—(T. Simpson, Narrative, p. 162.) 
2 Dr. Simpson, op. cit., p. 242. 
3 Compare Nordenski6ld’s figure of the fire drill in use at Pitlekaj (Vega, vol. 2, p. 121), which has a 
similar bone for a socket, held not in the mouth but in the left hand. 
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