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17606	Mason, Otis Tufton	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			.txt	text/plain	7290	658	83	throwing-stick in his hand he lays his harpoon shaft upon it so that the The Greenland spears have the pegs for the throwing-stick sometimes at The Cumberland Gulf type is the clumsiest throwing-stick in the Museum, thumb by a deep, sloping groove; for the index-finger by a perforation, harpoon or spear-shaft commences opposite the index-finger cavity as a the hook for the spear-shaft is formed by an ivory peg. finger-tip cavity on the upper surface of the handle forms the figure of The Yukon River Eskimo use a throwing-stick quite similar to the Norton The groove for the harpoon or spear-shaft is at the lower extremity and thumb-groove, the eccentric index-finger hole of the Northern and throwing-stick, with index-finger hole placed at one side of the finger-tips, index finger cavity, shaft-groove, and hook for the Greenland type of throwing-stick. are the three cavities for finger tips in the handle, the shaft groove	./cache/17606.txt	./txt/17606.txt