Uses.—The Eskimo used jade for a much
greater variety of implements than did the
Salish and the tribes of the southern coast,
and they showed much more individuality
in the different forms of the same type of ob-
ject. Their most valued personal ornament,
the man’s labret, was often made of jade.
Celis and Adzes.—The adze, the principal
edged tool for wood, bone, and ivory. work-
ing, was in two forms, as illustrated in
pl. xt-xmr. The larger blade was hafted
directly by means of a rawhide lashing to
ashort, bent bone, horn, or wooden handle;
the smaller one was inserted in the end of
a short section* of caribou-horn, which

was fitted to and seized in like manner to

a similar handle. The lashings were put
on wet, and the handles were expanded at
the lower end or drilled in one or several

holes, over or through which the seizing

passed.. An adze in the writer’s possession
is secured to the handle with a whalebone
seizing. In some instances the handle
was ornamentally etched.

Hammers.—Hammers, which were more

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