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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

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��the short, flat face. On the type represented in figure 17, e, a ridge is found on this face with two notches at its lower end. The harpoon-heads represented in figures r8, /, and 19, c, belong also to this series of types and suggested to me that they are also from Point Hope. Mr C. C. Willoughby informed me, on in- quiry, that these specimens originally formed part of the collec- tion to which the harpoons in the American Museum of Natural History belonged.

���The Point Barrow harpoons are much simpler than those found at Point Hope. Most of them have a rounded cross-sec- tion and a depression for the line running from the line-hole down to the base. A lateral ridge occurs on figure 18, i, only, the locality of which is not certain. The designs on figure 19, a, b, resemble the Point Hope series (figure 17, d,f).

Property marks on walrus harpoons are rather rare; but on many of those from Port Clarence (figure 20, a) are found two

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