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��rounded forms and a peculiar curve in the line running from tip to barb, while those from Point Hope show almost a straight line from tip to barb. Most of the property marks are placed just above the slanting base of the harpoon, on its shorter side. Exceptional locations are shown in figure 16, b, k. Most har- poons from Point Hope have an angular cross-section, the sides of the barb being strongly set off against the body of the har- poon, and forming a sharp ridge at the long side (figure 16, b, c, h-k). At Point Hope the center of decoration is the hole for the harpoon-line. The simplest form is a notch adjoin- ing the hole (figure i6,c). This develops into a triangle (figure 16, d, g). Sometimes the tri- angle and notch appear com- bined, the former having a black apex (figure 16, a). More elab- orate forms consist of systems of lines surrounding the hole, and these follow the lateral edges on the body of the har- poon. Figure 17, a-/, may be considered developments of the triangle mentioned before. The similarity between figures 17, a, and 17, b, is striking. The only difference consists in the presence of the notch above the line-hole on figure 17, b, and the differing location of the small cross-lines. Figure 17, d, e, and g-j are also very much alike. The first two of the latter series show the same design and the same property mark. This series may perhaps be considered a decoration de- veloped from the forms shown in 16, e,f. In the harpoons shown in figures 16, h-k, and 17, /, a middle rib on each side is added to

���Fig. is— Whaling bupoonl. Ono-foui HK, a, A, from Point Barrow, 1 Mm., Not. Bo;.?, *w« ; (, from Pc Feabody Miacum, No. J««A.

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