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Beluga lance-butts — Continued. 



shoulders-, by means of which they are seized and lashed. 

 Length, 3| inches. 72,403. Length, 4 inches. 72,402. Bristol 

 Bay, Alaska, 1882. C. L. McKay. 



Beluga harpoon-shaft. 



Light, wooden stick, § inch in diameter, tipped with walrus ivory,, 

 carved in shape of a head of an animal. Harpoon wanting. 

 Length, 4 feet 5£ inches. Bristol Bay, Alaska, 1882. 72,392. 

 Collected by Charles L. McKay. Used by natives, in connec- 

 tion with the accompanying throwing-stick (72,398), for the 

 capture of the beluga. 



Beluga harpoon-shaft. 



Wood, £ inch in diameter, with ornamental head carved in walrus 

 ivory. Harpoon wanting. Length, 4 feet 4 inches. Alaska. 

 72,393. Collected by C. L. McKay. Used by natives, in con- 

 nection with the accompanying throwing-stick (72,398), in the 

 capture of the beluga. 



Bird-spear and throwing-stick. 



Pole, wood ; iron spear barbed, inserted in tip; brass ferrule; three 

 diverging bone barbs with one " beard " each, lashed to central 

 part of handle. Throwing-stick, an instrument held in the 

 right hand and used to hurl the spear ; wood, slotted on one 

 side for the reception of the handle of spear ; one hole for in- 

 dex finger, and notches for thumb and fingers. Length of 

 spear, 55 inches ; of stick, 21 inches. Arctic America. 10,267. 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Bird-spear. 



Pole, wood ; butt tipped with ivory ;. three branching barbs with 

 two notches each, ivory, lashed to handle in center; two iron 

 spears with one barb each inserted in tip of pole ; tip of pole 

 served with strips of baleen. Old ; has been used. Length, 

 66 inches. Eskimo, Greenland. 19,516. Collected by George 

 Y. Nickerson. 



Bird-spear. 



Long, smooth, ivory tip, slightly curved; cedar shaft; three con- 

 verging ivory barbs, serrated on inner edges, are lashed to' 

 shaft 17 inches from butt. Length, 59 inches. Saint Michael's, 

 Norton Sound, Alaska, 1876. 29,853. Collected by Lucien M. 

 Turner. 



Bird-spear (Nu-i-n'et). 



Tip made of a heavy curved piece of walrus ivory, sharp pointed 

 and deeply serrated on one edge; long, cedar shaft; three di- 



