PLATE I. 



(Mason. Throwingsticks.) 



FlG. 1. Eskimo launching a seal harpoon by means of the thro wing-stick. Mr. John- 

 Murdoch states that the hand is held much lower by the Point Barrow 

 Eskimo, the harpoon resting as low as the shoulder, and that the move- 

 ment of throwing the harpoon is quick, as in casting a fly in fishing. 



