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Throwing-sticks in the National Museum - Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the - Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-'84, - Government Printing Office, Washington, 1890, pages 279-289 by Otis T. Mason
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Collected in Norton Sound, by E.W. Nelson, in 1878. Museum number,
32995.

Fig. 12. Throwing-stick from Sabotnisky, on the Lower Yukon. It
belongs to the Norton Sound type. The cavity on the upper side of the
handle for the finger-tips is remarkable for the carving of a bird
resembling figures seen on objects made by the Western Indians of the
United States. Collected by E.W. Nelson, at Sabotnisky, in 1879. Museum
number, 36013.

[Illustration: Fig. 11. Norton Sound throwing-stick, front and
back.
Fig. 12. Sabotnisky throwing-stick, front and back.]

PLATE X.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)

Fig. 13. Specimen from Yukon River, belonging to the Northern
Sound one-pegged variety. Collected by E.W. Nelson, in 1879. Museum
number, 38849.

[Illustration: Fig. 13. Yukon River throwing-stick, front and
back.]

PLATE XI.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)