This should be
compared with Mr. Turner's Saint Michael specimen, in which the last
three fingers are inclosed together (Fig. 14). It remains to be seen and
is worthy of investigation whether crossing a narrow channel would add a
peg to the throwing-stick. One of these Nunivak specimens is
left-handed.

BRISTOL BAY TYPE.

The throwing-stick from Bristol Bay resembles in general characteristics
those from Nunivak Island and Cape Vancouver. In outline it has the
shape of the broadsword. Its cross-section is bayonet-shaped. It has no
distinct handle beyond a slight projection from the end. The
thumb-groove is shallow and chamfered on the lower side to fit exactly.
There is a long, continuous notch for the four fingers, in which the
index finger and the middle finger are set off by pegs. There is a
depression, more or less profound, to receive the tips of the fingers.
The groove for the harpoon or spear-shaft is at the lower extremity and
runs out entirely near the index finger. The ivory plug at its lower
extremity is beveled to receive a notch in the end of the spear or
harpoon shaft (Figs. 18-19).

A freshly-made implement, looking as if cut out by machinery, resembling
closely those just described, is labeled Kadiak. The constant traffic
between Bristol Bay and Kadiak, across the Alaskan peninsula, may
account for the great similarity of these implements. Furthermore, since
the natives in this region and southward have been engaged for more than
a century in fur-sealing for the whites, there is not the slightest
doubt that implements made by whites have been introduced and slightly
modified by the wearer to fit his hand.

KADIAK OR UNALASHKA TYPE.

In the National Museum are four throwing-sticks, one of them
left-handed, exactly alike--two of them marked Kadiak and two Unalashka
(Figs. 20-22). They return to the more primitive type of the area from
Kotzebue Sound to Greenland, indicating that the implement culminated in
Norton Sound. In outline this southern form is thin and straight-sided,
and those in possession are all of hard wood. The back is carved in
ridges to fit the palm of the hand and muscles of the thumb. There is no
thumb-groove, the eccentric index-finger hole of the Northern and
Eastern Eskimo is present in place of the central cavity of the area
from Kotzebue Sound to Cape Vancouver, and there is a slight groove for
the middle finger. Marks 5 and 6 are wanting. The shaft-groove is very
slight,