. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Copper and Steel Daggers with Sheaths of Buckskin and Moose Hide. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 285. back into the interior. Fig. 116 is a slight modification in the type of117, in the direction of 118. The first daggers that were made of steel,after the advent of the whites, were converted by the natives fromlarge flat files, which they alsomade into adze blades. The skill-ful manner in which the Indiansground down the files into beauti-fully fluted daggers challengedthe admiration of the traders,who found the work
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Copper and Steel Daggers with Sheaths of Buckskin and Moose Hide. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 285. back into the interior. Fig. 116 is a slight modification in the type of117, in the direction of 118. The first daggers that were made of steel,after the advent of the whites, were converted by the natives fromlarge flat files, which they alsomade into adze blades. The skill-ful manner in which the Indiansground down the files into beauti-fully fluted daggers challengedthe admiration of the traders,who found the work as skillfullydone as that by European metal-workers. The primitive daggerwas of stone or bone. Those ofbone were of the shape shown inFig. 107, Plate xxv, with a sharpridge running down the 108& represents a Tlingitstone dagger from the EmmonsCollection Fig. 108c from thesame source, has a blade of stoneand handle of wood covered intotemic design. Another daggerof jadeite or nephrite, not hererepresented, is a long prism ofsquare cross-section pointed ateach end, about three-fourthsinch on a side, with the handleabout one-third of the distancefrom one end.
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