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ESQUIMAUX IMPLEMENTS. 
and rudely-fashioned pieces of walrus ivory, evidently 
parts of sledge and lance gear. But wood must have 
been even more scarce with them than with the 
natives of Baffin’s Bay north of the Melville glacier. 
ESQUIMAUX IMPLEMENTS, FROM GRAVES. 
We found, for instance, a child’s toy spear, which, 
though elaborately tipped with ivory, had its wooden 
handle pieced out of four separate bits, all carefully 
patched and bound with skin. No piece was more 
than six inches in length or half an inch in thickness. 
