PLATE XVI

a. Man’s small knife consisting of a slender blade of pale-
green jade, set in the end of a horn handle, which is grooved
to fit the fingers and with holes on the end for a lanyard to
secure it to the belt or to hang it when not in use. From the
Cape Nome coast, Alaska.

b. Man’s hunting knife, a fine leaf-shape blade of translu-
cent gray-green jade. It is sharpened along the morecurved
edge. The tang indicates that it was set into a handle like c¢,
From Kotzebue sound, Alaska. ;

c. Man’s hunting knife complete. The blade, of dull-
green jade, is set in a handle of caribou-horn seized at the
opening with walrus-hide. From an old village-site on the
Bering coast of Seward peninsula.