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Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442Murdoch, John

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Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

Name: Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442
Author: Murdoch, John

Murdoch, John

Eskimos -- Alaska -- Barrow, Point, Region

Comb for deerskins in the tool-bag             189
Bag handles                                    190
Bag of leather                                 190
Little hand-club                               191
Slungshot made of walrus jaw                   191
Dagger of bear’s bone                          192
Bone daggers                                   192
So-called dagger of bone                       193
Boy’s bow from Utkiavwiñ                       196
Loop at end of bowstring                       197
Large bow from Nuwŭk                           197
Large bow from Sidaru                          198
Feathering of the Eskimo arrow                 201
Flint-headed arrow (kukĭksadlĭñ)               202
Long flint pile                                202
Short flint pile                               202
Heart-shaped flint pile                        203
(_a_) Arrow with “after pile” (ipudligadlĭñ);
          (_b_) arrow with iron pile (savidlĭñ);
          (_c_) arrow with iron pile (savidlĭñ);
          (_d_) arrow with copper pile (savidlĭñ);
          (_e_) deer-arrow (nûtkodlĭñ)                   203
Pile of deer arrow (nûtkăñ)                    205
“Kûnmûdlĭñ” arrow pile                         205
(_a_) Fowl arrow (tugalĭñ); (_b_) bird arrow
        (kixodwain)                                      206
Bow case and quivers                           208
Quiver rod                                     209
Cap for quiver rod                             209
Bracer                                         210
Bracer of bone                                 210
Bird dart                                      211
Point for bird dart                            212
Ancient point for bird dart                    212
Point for bird dart                            213
Bird dart with double point                    213
Ancient ivory dart head                        214
Bone dart head                                 214
Nozzle for bladder float                       215
Seal dart                                      215
Foreshaft of seal dart                         217
Throwing board for darts                       217
Harpoon head                                   218
Harpoon head                                   219
Ancient bone harpoon head                      219
(_a_) Ancient bone harpoon head;
          (_b_) variants of this type                    220
Bone harpoon head                              220
Bone harpoon head                              220
Harpoon head, bone and stone                   221


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Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition: Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442

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