LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 765 



Ethnological Objects, etc. — Continued. 



Nos. 33-34. A willow basket, open work and shallow. Used to serve boiled sal- 

 inon at feasts ; still in common use. 



No. 35. Hamper of open willow work; used by the women in carrying loads. It 

 is supported by a band across the forehead. 



No. 37. A large, shallow basket; used under the grinding-stone to catch the 

 meal. (See Nos. 31-32.) 



Nos. 41-46. Bows, arrows, and quivers, of the patterns now commonly in use. 

 The bow and arrow is now used only in taking small game. 



No. 47. A baton of basket work, carried by men in the right hand while danc- 

 ing. 



Nos. 48-49. Paint mills; obsolete; very old. 

 Nos. 50-52. Stone frying-pans; in common use. 

 No. 53. Wooden stool ; in common use. 

 No. 54. Tobacco-pouch of basket-work. 



No. 55. Otter-skin and shell ornaments. Worn by women in the hair when 

 dancing. 



No. 56. Woman's necklace. 



No. 57. Kattle used in dancing ; made of deer hoofs. 

 No. 58. Necklace of large pine nuts; worn by women. 

 No. 59. Necklace of small pine nuts; worn by women, 

 No. 60. Hair brush ; made of elk hair and leather. 



No. 61-63. Dance dresses, w r orn by women at dances and occasions of ceremony. 

 No. 64. Man's deer-skin cloak. 



No. 65. Dip-net used in taking eels and young salmon. Made of grass-fiber 

 twine. (See 78-80.) 



No. 66. Stone spoon ; obsolete. 



No. 67-70. Stone baking dishes, in common use by the old people for baking 

 a kind of pone made of acorn meal. 



No. 71. Salmon spear-heads, used with a pole and line. The head detaches 

 from the pole when the fish is struck, and it is retrieved with the liue. 

 No. 72. Shell necklace ; worn by women. 



No. 73-74. Ax>rons for women ; worn at dances ; made of grasses braided over 

 buckskin. 



No. 75-76. Spoons in common use. 



No. 77. Horn money-box with money (Dcntalium shells). 

 No. 78. Seine twine of grass fiber. (See No. bO. ) 



No. 79. Grass fiber. Each blade of grass (No. 80) produces two strands of fiber. 

 It is stripped when the grass is green by scraping with the thumb-nail, or a mus- 

 sel-shell fastened on the thumb, and is twisted into a cord with the palm of the 

 hand on the thigh. 



No. 80. Grass from which fiber No. 79 is taken. 



No. 81. Grass used in the manufacture of baskets. (See Nos. 88-93, 100-102.) 

 No. 82. Pad, to protect the forehead in carrying heavy loads. 

 No. 83. A talisman. A stone knife-blade with a .wrapping of otter-skin. This 

 particular kind of stone is held in great veneration, and is said to be brought 

 from a long distance. It is not found in the vicinity of Hoopa, so far as is 

 known. 

 No. 84. Ermine skin. 



No. 85. Stone. The size used in cooking sow-heads — a kind of acorn mash. It 

 is cooked in a basket (No. 106) by dropping the heated stones, 



