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which the lanyard is rove, to attach it to
the belt or:the needle-case. The drilling
of the eye must have been a delicate and
laborious operation, and to facilitate it a
deep, longitudinal groove was worked in
one or both sides, thus reducing the thick-
ness of the wall to be drilled. In some
cases the eye was drilled partly through
from each side to meet in the middle. In-
stead of thus piercing the stone for a thong,
the rough end was sometimes tightly
covered with seal-skin, with a thong at-
tached. The lower end was rounded,
pointed, or flattened, as most convenient.

Chisels —For working in wood, ivory,
and bone, chisels were next in importance
to adzes. ‘These consisted of short, narrow
blades of jade, usually set in the end of a
handle of bone or ivory. Pl. xx shows
several forms of hafted chisels. Of these,
a, an unusually fine specimen, is provided
with a blade of homogeneous gray-bluish-
green jade, free from flaw, inserted in the
end of a section of caribou horn, which is
fitted and seized with hide to a handle of
wood. The hole in one side of the handle

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