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sparrow or snipe, or a bit of wood, stone, some feathers or hair, that 
they may not overset” (vol. 1, p. 216), and perhaps the bone of a marine 
animal, like the seal, is to protect the crew from drowning should the 
boat upset, after all. 
No, 89529 [1150] from Utkiavwin is a bunch of feathers to be carried 
in the boat. It consists of nine wing feathers of the golden eagle, four 
tied in a bunch with a bit of sinew round the quills, four tied up with 
one end of the short bit of seal thong which serves to tie the whole 
bundle together, one of which has all the light-colored parts of the 
feather stained with red ocher, and a single feather shaft carefully 
wrapped up in a piece of entrail and wound spirally with a piece of 
sinew braid. | 
No, 89527-8 [1327| from Utkiavwin is the charm which will secure 
good success in deerhunting if it is hung up outside of the snow house 
in which the family is encamped. It consists of two roughly stuffed 
skins of the black bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola), each with a 
Fic. 424. Amulet of whaling; stuffed godwit. 
stick run through the body so that one end supports the neck and the 
other the tail, and the necks wound with sinew. One has no head. 
A string of sinew braid is tied around the body of each, so as to leave 
a free end at the back, to which is fastened a little cross piece of bone, by 
which it may be secured to a becket. Like the rest of the amulets in 
the collection this has evidently seen service, being very old, worn, and 
faded. 
The other class of amulets, namely objects which have belonged to or 
been in contact with certain persons or supernatural beings, or I may 
add apparently certain localities, is represented 
by a number of specimens. To the custom of 
using such things as amulets, we undoubtedly owe 
the preservation of most of the ancient weapons and 
Fic. 425,—Amulet consist. Other implements, especially those made of wood, 
ing of ancient jade adz. hone, or other perishable substances, like the an- 
cient harpoon heads already described, one of which, No. 89544 [1419], 
is still attached to the belt on which it was worn. 
Fig. 425, No. 56668 [308], from Utkiavwin is one of the ancient black 
