. The coast Indians of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia. Indians of North America; Indians of North America. ing the animal for which it was made. Figs. 128 and 129 are sea-otter clubs; Figs. 130 and 131 are seal clubs. The halibut and other lish clubs are similar in design. A type not here illustrated is a round wooden knob with straight handle. Baggers.—Dixon (1787) says of the Ilaida and Tlingit: Their weapons are spears fixed to a pole 6 or 8 feet long, and a kind of short dagger, which is worn in a leather case, and tied round the body; to this dagger a leather thong is faste
. The coast Indians of southern Alaska and northern British Columbia. Indians of North America; Indians of North America. ing the animal for which it was made. Figs. 128 and 129 are sea-otter clubs; Figs. 130 and 131 are seal clubs. The halibut and other lish clubs are similar in design. A type not here illustrated is a round wooden knob with straight handle. Baggers.—Dixon (1787) says of the Ilaida and Tlingit: Their weapons are spears fixed to a pole 6 or 8 feet long, and a kind of short dagger, which is worn in a leather case, and tied round the body; to this dagger a leather thong is fastened, at the end of which is a hole for the middle finger; the leather is afterwards twisted round the wrist in order to fix the dagger firm in the hand, so that the warrior loses his weapon only with his life.* The handle is generally nearer one end than the other, giving a long blade and a short one. The leather sheath is usually strapped to the waist or hung about the neck, concealed be- neath the blanket. The handle is small in diameter, wrapped with leather, and secured by a thoDg to the wrist when carried in the hand. The blades are flat and thicker down the middle than towards the edges, being generally grooved on each side of the center ridge. All varieties of patterns, how- ever, are found, the different types being well represented in Plate xxv, of which Fig. 108 represents a primi- tive dagger of copper inlaid with hali- otis shell, while Fig. 107 is the same type, of steel, with copper mountings. Fig. lOld is a sheath of buckskin for the short blade of the dagger, and 107e the same for the long blade, the latter having, as shown, a strap to go about the neck. The dagger shown in Fig. 107 is from the Copper Eiver Indians, but is clearly a Tlingit type, having undoubtedly reached that region in the course of trade. Fig. 106 shows a one-bladed dagger with a carved handle. Fig. 104, with its three details, a, b, and c, shows the method of securing the handle to the bla
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