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Pl. 15.2, and also the handle Pl. 75.12; it is of whalebone, the butt. end bent laterally, and seems to have run evenly into the blade, to which it has been lashed; along the back is a row of holes, presumably for a similar winding to that often seen on the handles of snow knives in Alaska.^[1]

Pl. 74.15 is a small knife handle of wood, a suspension hole at the rear, a wedge-shaped cutting at the front for the rear end of a foreshaft; a hole has supported the lashing for this. In Comer's collection at Ottawa there is a large knife handle of wood with a similar fore end (Fig. 85); the handle is furnished with deep notches in the sides; this fits foreshaft fig. 86, with a wedge-shaped rear end, at the fore end with a slit for the blade. Fig. 87, likewise belonging to Comer's collection, is a large flensing knife with a wooden handle with similar notches in the edge; the blade, of metal, is held by two bands with rivets. Pl. 76.1 is a small knife handle of antler which, at the end and with the knobs on the side, greatly resembles the knife from house III at Kuk (Pl. 67.9).

A whittling knife has a flat whalebone handle, 10 cm long, 7.2 cm broad, with a small, single edged, triangular iron blade, 1.6 cm long, and a suspension hole in the rear end.

Pl. 75.6 is a bow drill of whalebone, round, at the fore end a socket, formed by drilling, open at one side, in which is the iron point; a shoulder has supported the lashing round this; two other. exactly similar drills are 18 and 12 cm long respectively, but without point; a third with a point is 10.2 cm long; a thick, slightly curved bow of ivory is 19 cm long, and the holes in each end run at right. angles to each other.

In Comer's collection at Ottawa there is an adze handle, 18 cm