. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 43. DIPPER OF FOSSIL The accompanying illustration of the foreshaft of a seal dart, fig. 46, is given, reproduced from the report on the natives of Point Barrow.^ The ornamentation is confined almost wholly to the nucleated circles, the only animate object portrayed being a deer. It is said that some of these shafts are highly ornamented, the figures being all incised and colored, some with ocher and some with soot. The specime
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 43. DIPPER OF FOSSIL The accompanying illustration of the foreshaft of a seal dart, fig. 46, is given, reproduced from the report on the natives of Point Barrow.^ The ornamentation is confined almost wholly to the nucleated circles, the only animate object portrayed being a deer. It is said that some of these shafts are highly ornamented, the figures being all incised and colored, some with ocher and some with soot. The specimen shown on plate 53 represents a decorated hunting hat from Katmai Island, Gooks Inlet, Alaska, and was collected by Mr. W, J. Fisher. %.. Fig. 44. LARGE KNIFE WITH ORNAMENTED HANDLE. This variety of head covering is common to the natives of the islands of Kadiak and those occupied by the Aleuts. This specimen is made of wood shaved down until the average thickness is only about one- fourth of an inch, wliile the height along the front, from the to^i to the bottom of the visor, is 9|^ inches. The color in chief is of white; the horizontal band about the bottom, flesh color; the remaining vertical stripes in front and about the toj), and downward through the crescent- 'Ninth Annual Keport Bureau of Ethnology, 1887- ndem, tig. 42,p. 103. 3 Idem, p. 217, hg. 204. 1892, p. 173, figs. 113 and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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