. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . represents a paint-pestle, which wasalso used as a weapon or missile, carried in the hand intimes of local feuds, brawls, and quarrels. Fig. 83arepresents a pestle of this kind in the JEmmons Col-lection already referred to. Another variety of pestle issh- vu in Plate lxiii. Fig 338. Fig. 339 of same plateis an ancient tobacco mortar of marble or calcite, neatly f CD^carved on the exterior with a totemic design. Othermortars carved in likeness of frogs, birds, fishes, andflower-pots are found throughout the northern regio
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . represents a paint-pestle, which wasalso used as a weapon or missile, carried in the hand intimes of local feuds, brawls, and quarrels. Fig. 83arepresents a pestle of this kind in the JEmmons Col-lection already referred to. Another variety of pestle issh- vu in Plate lxiii. Fig 338. Fig. 339 of same plateis an ancient tobacco mortar of marble or calcite, neatly f CD^carved on the exterior with a totemic design. Othermortars carved in likeness of frogs, birds, fishes, andflower-pots are found throughout the northern region. Wedges.—These are usually of wood and formerlywere entirely so. Now, however, iron wedges are some-times used. These, in any case, are for splitting up logsinto boards, and in getting out timber in the roughgenerally. A very useful type of wooden wedge isshown in Fig. 84, Plate xxii, general throughout the j,j ^g^ coast. These were used in connection with the heavy bone skin shown in the same plate. The heads of the (TUngit. Emmons coiiec- tion.). Fig. Pestle. (Tlingit. Emmons Collecti< wedges are protected, or prevented from splitting, by a grommet wovenfrom tough withes or from spruce root and put on as shown in the 282 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. illustration. The skill with which huge slabs, rafters, and boards aregotten out with the rough tools employed is surprising. Chisels.—A primitive type of chisel is shown in Fig. 78, consisting ofa green stone blade mounted in a wooden handle. The blade is similarin shape to those of the adzes. This instrument wasused in roughing down the surface, the smoothing beingdone by scraping with sharp-edged shells or stones, oreven by rubbing with shark or dog-fish skin to get afinished surface. Brills.—Holes, where drilled, were made by patientdigging with a pointed instrument of stone or bone, orby driving in a copper spike and withdrawing it. Jointswere made by dovetailing, mortising, tonguing a
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