ARTEFACTS COLLECTED 
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a seal was struck, the barbed head came away from the 
socket, but remained loosely united to the shaft by the thong. 
Fig. 10, no. 4 is from an unusually small specimen of this 
type, from a midden on Navarin. Fig. 1 o, no. 5 shows a well- 
made and very typical example which was found on the beach, 
Rio Douglas, Navarin. A variety of this type, furnished with 
a pair of barbs, is referred to in the diary, under the Yaghan 
name wai-iki, but apparently was not collected. This type 
is well known, though relatively uncommon. 
In the diary (June 13) mention is made of Grandi’s having 
‘brought a smooth, ground, long piece of whalebone, evi¬ 
dently a “harpoon” in the making’. This is shown in Fig. 
11, no. 2. It is about 12J in. long and ij in. wide at the 
centre. While it may, as suggested, be an unfinished spear- 
or harpoon-head, it has all the appearance of a finished imple¬ 
ment, suitable for use as a kind of flattened marline-spike. 
Other implements of bone in the collection are chiefly 
awls, of which several were obtained, gouge-like tools formed 
by grinding off* one face of a hollow long-bone, and flat, 
round-ended, spatulated tools, perhaps for smoothing or 
burnishing. An awl (Fig. 10, no. 8) from Navarin is made 
from the right humerus of a bird about the size of a duck, 
and is simply ground down at one end to a fine point, the 
articular condyles remain unaltered. Another (Fig. 1 o, no. 9) 
is made by similar treatment of the fibula of a young mammal, 
the epiphysis being detached. It was found in a Navarin 
midden. A third awl, shown in Fig. 10, no. 10, was found 
by Miss Hamilton also in one of these middens, and seems 
to have been made by splitting the femur of some large 
mammal, the bone being very dense and hard. The butt is 
broken, but the point is sharp and undamaged. Such awls 
would have been used for stitching and also in making baskets 
from juncus magellanicus , several of which were collected. 
The stone implements, most of which were found in the 
