worth noting that the implement seems to have been very 

 liable to break just above the handle. 



Inv. Amd. 100 (Fig. 54), from Sabine Island, is a little 

 cylindrical or conical pipe of bone (length 2*2 cm) with a cir- 

 cular indentation at the top and a deep slit running all the 

 way round at the bottom. 



It is a pipe-shaped nozzle, or mouth-piece for 

 inflating the sealskin float, of a similar kind to that 

 known from the southerly part of the east coast 

 and from the west coast. They use it in this way. 



The lower part of the pipe is stuck through a hole 

 Fig. 64. Nozzle 

 of bone for in- '"^ ^^^ bladder, which consists of a seal-skin which 



flating the seal- has been flayed oö" entire, in which the necessary 



!"^ tT J лТ slits have been sewn up again, so that it can hold 

 bine Island. 4i. ^ ^ ' 



the air when it is blown up. The place of the 

 nozzle is in the snout of the seal (or in the genital opening)^). 

 The edges of the hole are gathered up with a thin strap in the 

 slit, so that the rest of the pipe sticks outside the bladder; 

 the latter is blown up through the pipe, the mouth of which 

 is stopped up with a plug of wood. 



The implement is found everywhere as an accessory of 

 the Eskimo's sealskin floats^). The Alaska forms, however, 

 seem to diverge a good deal from the Greenland ones. Inv, 

 Amd. 100 was possibly meant to go along 

 with the little bladder which is attached to 

 the shaft of a spear. Fig ßs. ivory but- 



Inv. Amd. 101 (Fig. 65), from Cape Bor- ton Cape Borlase 

 läse Warren, is a curved cylindrical piece of 

 ivory (length from point to point 3'5 cm), a little thicker in 

 the middle than at the ends, with a transverse hole in the 

 same plane as that of the curve. It is ornamented with three 

 pairs of annular slits. 



Murdoch I, 247. 



Boas I, 492—493; Nelson 142, PI. 56. 



