342 THE POINT BARROW ESKIMO. 
and has four beckets of the same material, two in the usual position 
and two at the widest part of the shank. These take the place of the 
loop running across the butt. On the middle of the back of each arm 
is a small cross incised and blackened with a small blue glass bead in- 
laid in the center, and there are two whale’s tails on the opposite face 
of the shank. It is 8 inches long. 
No. 89419 [926], from Nuwittk, has a nearly straight shank with a 
flange on each side at the butt. It is lashed together with whalebone 
and has also a treenail, like the type. The upper beckets are of sinew- 
braid. A large becket at the butt is made by looping and knotting 
the ends of a bit of thong into a hole in each flange. There is one 
whale’s tail engraved on the front of the shank. When lashed in posi- 
FG, 348.—I vory crotch for 
F1G. 349.—Croteh for hapoon made 
harpoon 
of walrus jaw. 
tion the front or ornamental side faces inboard, as is indicated by the 
shape of the shank, which is slightly narrower behind than in front, 
so as to fit between the converging gunwales. No. 8917 [1104], Fig. 
349, from Nuwuk, the only one of the kind seen, is a very interesting 
form. It is made by cutting a horizontal slice out of the lower jaw of 
a walrus, so that it form the arms of the crotch, while the thick sym- 
physis is cut into a shank of the usual shape, with the two upper beckets 
in the usual place and a large one at the butt, passing through a trans- 
verse hole. These beckets are roughly made of thong. Its total length 
js 6°6 inches. 
This specimen from its soiled condition is undoubtedly quite ancient, 
and probably of an older type than the highly ornamented ivory crotches 
