Footnotes 273-410
[273]. Journal, p. 92.
[274]. Compare this with what Capt. Parry says of the workmanship of the people of Iglulik (2d Voy., p. 336). The almost exclusive use of the double-edged pan´na is the reason their work is so “remarkably coarse and clumsy.”
[275]. Lisiansky also mentions “a small crooked knife” (Voyage, p. 181), as one of the tools used in Kadiak in 1805.
[276]. A specimen has lately been received at the National Museum. It is remarkably like the Indian knife in pattern.
[277]. Op. cit., p. 266.
[278]. See for example, Kumlien, op. cit., p. 26.
[279]. See, especially, Dall, Contrib., vol. 1, pp. 59 and 79, for figures of such knives from the caves of Unalashka.
[280]. Prehistoric Fishing, pp. 183-188.
[281]. It is but just to Dr. Rau to say that he recognized the fact that these implements are not exclusively fish-cutters, and applies this name only to indicate that he has treated of them simply in reference to their use as such. The idea, however, that these, being slightly different in shape from the Greenland olu or ulu, are merely fish knives, has gained a certain currency among anthropologists which it is desirable to counteract.