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point a little away from the shaft, to which it is secured solely 

 along its basal edge ; the lashing nearer to the middle counter- 

 acts this tendency of the basal lashing by exerting centripetal 

 force. This manner of attaching these lateral points, which 

 may be safely deduced from their form, seems different from 

 the usual manner, where the two lashings work in the same 

 direction, the position of the point depending solely on its 

 form as soon as the base of it has been secured to the 

 shaft, the lower part bending outwards and the middle part 

 curving inwardly (cf. Appendix Figs. 83 and 84). In the bird- 

 spears of Baffin Land the two separate lashings of the lateral 

 points are placed around the elongated slanting butt^); the 

 points of the bird-spears of Alaska^) have either two separate 

 lashings round the lower part, or a single broader one ; the 

 reflexed base is also found in some points from Alaska, but is 

 lacking in others ^). It is particularly interesting to find the 

 barb on the outer edge of the point, just as in the point from 

 East Greenland, recurring in one of the lateral points of the 

 bird-spears illustrated in Nelson, from St. Lawrence island in 

 the Bering Strait^). Finally, it may be mentioned that the 

 Chukchee^) employ bird-spears with lateral points, of a some- 

 what different type, it would seem, from those of the Eskimo. 

 Peculiar to inv. Amd. 20 are the two comparatively large 

 perforated holes, which were presumably used for securing the 

 lashings. 



GENERAL REMARKS. Most of the long weapon heads of 

 the collection come from Dunholm, the little island hardly twenty 

 miles south of the entrance to Scoresby Sund, where an old 



') Boas I, 496, fig. 4:«. 



2) Nelson PI. 59; Murdoch 1, 211,213, figs. 195, 199. 



Я) Nelson 150, fig. 42. 



■•) Nelson fig. 42, no. 6. 



b) Bogoras, 146. 



