PLATE VI. 



(Mason. Throwing-sticks.) 



Flo. 7. Kotzebue Sound type. The specific marks are the twisted handle, the broad 

 shallow shaft groove, and, notably, the pocket for the index-finger tip- 

 visible on the lower side, but nearly absent from the upper side, and lying 

 directly under the shaft groove. In the examples before noted all the holes 

 for the index finger are to one side of this shaft groove. Collected in Kotze- 

 bue Sound, by E. P. Herendeen, in 1874. Museum number, 1C235. 



FlG. 8. The Rodgers type, so called because the locality is doubtful. In specific char- 

 acters it resembles Fig. 7. The differences are the 1hree cavities for finger 

 tips in the handle, the shaft groove very shallow and running out before 

 reaching the index-finger cavity, and the delicate hook for the spear shaft 

 resembling those farther south. Since writing this paper two throwing- 

 sticks from Sitka have been seen in many respects resembling this form, but 

 covered all over their surfaces with characteristic Thliukit mythological 

 figures, and having iron hooks at the lower end of the shaft groove. Col- 

 lected by Commodore John Rodgers, in 1867. Museum number, 2533. 



