. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Bone Spear-head. (Tlingit. EoinioQS Collection.) Fig. 149aSalmon Gig. (Tlingit. Emmons Collection.) drift. This type is adapted to the capture of other kinds of fish andeven the sea-otter, but one better for all purposes of hunting and fish-ing is that shown in Fig. 150, Plate xxx. A detailed description of thespear complete may not be out of place, as it is the general coast Indiantype from Puget Sound to Cape St. Elias. Such a spear consists of threeparts, the shaft, fore shaft, and head. The shaft is a light
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Bone Spear-head. (Tlingit. EoinioQS Collection.) Fig. 149aSalmon Gig. (Tlingit. Emmons Collection.) drift. This type is adapted to the capture of other kinds of fish andeven the sea-otter, but one better for all purposes of hunting and fish-ing is that shown in Fig. 150, Plate xxx. A detailed description of thespear complete may not be out of place, as it is the general coast Indiantype from Puget Sound to Cape St. Elias. Such a spear consists of threeparts, the shaft, fore shaft, and head. The shaft is a light cedar pole,having in the outer end a socket, and served on that end with a wrap-ping of cedar bark fibre or spruce root to prevent its splitting. Thegeneral type of fore-shaft is that shown in Fig. 1376, Plate xxix. It isof cedar wood, about 8 to 10 inches long, and pointed at both ends, thatat c being a flat leaf-s^haped expansion fitting into the socket in the endof the shaft. The point d fits into a socket in the butt of the spear usual type of spear head
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