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
Murdoch, John
Eskimos -- Alaska -- Barrow, Point, Region
Marker for meat cache 262
263. Marker for meat cache 263
264. Tackle for shore fishing 279
265. Knot of line into hook 279
266. Small fish-hooks 280
267. Hooks for river fishing 280
268. Tackle for river fishing 280
269. Burbot hook, first pattern 281
270. Burbot hook, second pattern 281
271. Burbot hook, made of cod hook 281
272. Burbot tackle, baited 281
273. Ivory sinker 282
274. Ivory jigger for polar cod 282
275. Section of whalebone net 284
276. Mesh of sinew net 285
277. Fish trap 285
278. Fish spear 286
279. Flint flakers 288
280. Haft of flint flaker 288
281. Flint flaker, with bone blade 289
282. Fire drill, with mouthpiece and stock 289
283. Set of bow-and-arrow tools 291
284. Marline spike 292
285. Marline spike 292
286. “Twister” for working sinew backing of bow 293
287. “Feather setter” 294
288. Tool of antler 294
289. Skin scraper 295
290. Skin scrapers--handles only 295
291. Skin scrapers 296
292. Skin scraper 296
293. Peculiar modification of scraper 296
294. Skin scraper 297
295. Skin scraper 297
296. Skin scraper 297
297. Flint blade for skin scraper 298
298. Straight-hafted scraper 298
299. Bone scraper 299
300. Scraper cups 299
301. Combs for cleaning deer-skins 301
302. “Double slit” splice for rawhide lines 302
303. Mattock of whale’s rib 303
304. Pickax-heads of bone, ivory, and whale’s rib 303
305. Ivory snow knife 305
306. Snow shovels 305
307. Snow shovel made of a whale’s scapula 307
308. Snow pick 307
309. Snow drill 308
310. Ice scoop 308
311.
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