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SPENCER’S JOURNAL 
repairing machinery on cutter. Afternoon with George and 
words for parts of body. 
Ken told us that Harry, eldest boy of Domingo, has 
special power of catching shag on rocks at night. He was 
one night with him and a Norwegian sailor. Harry landed 
and caught them easily, but when Norwegian came on 
rocks, all birds went away, whilst they had not moved so 
long as Harry was alone. Harry does not eat wing and 
breast of the birds. Ken told me this, and when later I ques¬ 
tioned Harry, he confirmed it, not knowing that Ken had 
told me. 
In the afternoon Ken gave me a long boomerang-shaped 
bone, evidently a piece of rib of whale shaped by thinning 
down and grinding each end. Had found it on Cape Horn 
Islands. George recognized it at once as a long bone imple¬ 
ment called Suf-sta (fig. 8, no. 6) used by men for stripping 
bark off trees for canoes. It was pushed up by hand from 
below and behind the bark. Had-push is general name for 
bone. The implement is sometimes a foot longer than this 
one. At first glance, it is very suggestive of a boomerang, 
but it is never used for throwing. 
Senor Grandi found a ‘spear-head’ on the surface of a 
midden on Bertrand Island. 
Domingo calls both of his wives, old and young, ut-tuk\ 
George calls both the old and young wives tamai-kippa , or the 
two together, mamai-tata-kippai . 
George told me this afternoon that when Domingo married 
the young wife, her mother was the wife of a man then alive. 
She had two or three other children who died. When the 
mother s husband died , Do??iingo took her as his wife , but this 
was after he had married her daughter . 
Head as whole, lakush kutta or Luma(?ia)\ Luma = also 
skull; bone generally = had-push . 
hair of head, ushta . 
