. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 322 NOTES ON THE TINNEH OR CHEPEWYAN INDIANS »l^S2 boiled by means of stones heated red hot and thrown into the kettle. The arrow-heads are of bone for wild fowl, or bone tipped with iron for moose or deer; the bow is about five feet long, and that of the Hong-Kutchin is furnished with a small piece of wood, three inches long by one and a half broad and nearly one thick, which projects close to the part grasped by the hand. This piece catch
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 322 NOTES ON THE TINNEH OR CHEPEWYAN INDIANS »l^S2 boiled by means of stones heated red hot and thrown into the kettle. The arrow-heads are of bone for wild fowl, or bone tipped with iron for moose or deer; the bow is about five feet long, and that of the Hong-Kutchin is furnished with a small piece of wood, three inches long by one and a half broad and nearly one thick, which projects close to the part grasped by the hand. This piece catches the string and prevents it from striking the hand, for the bow is not bent much. There are no individuals whose trade it is to make spears, bows, or arrows. They make knives out of 8-inch or 10-inch files ; these are long and narrow, pointed and double edged; one side has a ridge running from the handle to the point, the other side is slightly hollowed. The blade and handle are made of the same piece of steel, and that part grasped by the hand is covered with dressed deer-skin, and the top of the han- dleis curved. They have no means of Kutchin knife. spinning. They weave kettles of tamarack roots, shirts of strips of rabbit- skin, and caps of the same material. For dyeing they use berries and a kind of grass growing in swamps. Foxes, martens, wolves, and wolverines are caught in traps; moose deer, lynxes, rabbits, and marmots are taken in snares. The general mode of killing moose is to stalk them. In the spring they some- times run them down ?on snow-shoes, and in the fall, when the moose are rutting, the hunter provides him- self with a shoulder blade of the same ani- mal ; he then ap- jproaches the male as •close as possible, and rubs the bone against the trees. The moose charges at once, mis- taking the sound for that made by another naale rubbing his horns against the trees. They sometimes sur- round an island where the moose are known to be, and kill them ^ Marten t
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