107 is the same type, of steel, with copper mountings.įig. 108 represents a primitive dagger of copper inlaid with haliotis shell, while Fig. All varieties of patterns, however, are found, the different types being well represented in Plate XXV, of which Fig. The blades are flat and thicker down the middle than towards the edges, being generally grooved on each side of the center ridge. The handle is small in diameter, wrapped with leather, and secured by a thong to the wrist when carried in the hand. The leather sheath is usually strapped to the waist or hung about the neck, concealed beneath the blanket. The handle is generally nearer one end than the other, giving a long blade and a short one. “Their weapons are spears fixed to a pole 6 or 8 feet long, and a kind of short dagger, which is worn in a leather case, and tied round the body to this dagger a leather thong is fastened, at the end of which is a hole for the middle finger the leather is afterwards twisted round the wrist in order to fix the dagger firm in the hand, so that the warrior loses his weapon only with his life.” A type not here illustrated is a round wooden knob with straight handle.ĭixon (1787) says of the Haida and Tlingit: 130 and 131 are seal clubs, The halibut and other fish clubs are similar in design. Each club is used distinctly for the purpose of dispatching the animal for which it was made. These are all carved either with the totemic design of the owner or a representation of the animal itself. 132 is a war-club pure and simple, the others being hunting or fishing implements and used to give the death-blow to seals, sea-otters, or fish after their capture by the different methods explained hereafter.
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