Xll.] 
IVOKY COAT OF MAIL. 
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Probably it lias formed part of the booty ivoii long ago in the 
fights with the Cossacks. I procured by barter an ivory coat 
of mail (fig. 7 on p. 105), and remains of another. The ivory 
plates of the coat of mail are twelve centimetres in length, four 
in breadth, and nearly one in thickness, holes being bored at 
CHUKCH ARROWS. 
(One-ninth or the natural size.) a. An arrowhead (one-half the natural size). 
their edges for the leather thongs by which the plates are 
bound together. This binding has been so arranged that the 
whole coat of mail, when not in use, may be rolled together. 
Along with the spear and the coat of mail the old Chukches 
used the bow for martial purposes. Now this weapon is 
