Museum number,
38669.

[Illustration: Fig. 17. Cape Vancouver throwing-stick, front
and back.]

PLATE XV.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)

Figs. 18, 19. Bristol Bay type. In no essential characters do
these sticks differ from those of Nunivak. The handle is smaller, and
they appear to have been made with steel tools. Fig. 18 collected by
C.L. McKay, at Bristol Bay, Alaska, in 1883. Museum number, 72398. Fig.
19 collected by William J. Fisher, at Kadiak, in 1884. Museum number,
90467.

[Illustration: Fig. 18. Bristol Bay throwing-stick, front and
back.
Fig. 19. Bristol Bay throwing-stick, front and back.]

PLATE XVI.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)

Fig. 20. Unalashkan throwing-stick. It would be better to call
this form the Southern type. The noticeable features in all our
specimens are the parallel sides, the hard material, thinness, the
carving for the fingers, but above all the reappearance of the eccentric
cavity for the index finger. This cavity is not a great perforation, as
in the Point Barrow type, but an eccentric pocket, a compromise between
the Northern cavity and that of the East. Collected by Sylvanus Bailey,
at Unalashka, in 1874. Museum number, 16076.

[Illustration: Fig. 20. Unalashkan throwing-stick, front and
back.]

PLATE XVII.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)

Figs. 21, 22. Throwing-sticks of the Southern type. Fig. 21 is
left-handed, collected by Dr. T.T. Minor, at Kadiak, in 1869. Museum
number, 7933. Fig. 22 collected by W.H. Dall, at Unalashka, in 1873.
Museum number, 12981. At Sitka two specimens were collected,
unfortunately not figured, with the following characters laid down in
the beginning of this paper: 1. Short, very narrow and deep, and carved
all over with devices. 2. No handle distinct from the body. 3, 4, 5, 6.
All wanting. 7. The index-finger cavity is near the center of the back,
very like a thimble. Indeed this is a very striking feature. 8. The
shaft groove occupies only the lower half of the upper surface. 9. The
spur for the end of the weapon shaft is a long piece of iron like a
knife-blade driven into the wood, with the edge toward the weapon
shaft.

[Illustration: Fig. 21. Kadiak throwing-stick, front and back,
left handed.
Fig. 22. Unalashkan throwing-stick, front and back.]

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