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ers, indifferent marksmen, and wanting in that coolness and nerve for 

 which the hunting Indians of the interior are famous. 

 Besides the animals hunted for their skins as men- 

 tioned, there may be added the fox, wolf, mink, mar- 

 ten, laud-otter, and an occasional Canada lynx and 

 wolverine on the mainland. The method of dressing 

 the skin is not different from that of the interior 

 Indians, so generally described in works of travel. 

 The skin scrapers or dressers are either of stone or 

 bone, and of the pattern shown in Fig. 79 h, Plate 

 XX and Fig. 19k. 



Ermine and marmot. — In Figs. 145 a and 145& are 

 shown two bone trap sticks, to which are fastened 

 the sinew nooses used in the capture of ermine and 

 marmot. Those for ermine are somewhat smaller 

 than those shown in the figure. They are, more- 

 over, sometimes made of wood instead of bone, and 

 are elaborately carved in totemic designs. These 

 (TUDgit. EmmooBCouection.) ^^q specimcDS arc from the Emmons collection. 



Fig. 145 a, b. 

 Bone Trap-sticks. 



