The National Museum has no throwing-stick from this region, but
Nordenskjöld figures one in the Voyage of Vega (p. 477, Fig. 5), which
is as simple as the one from Anderson River, excepting that the former
has a hook of ivory, while the latter has a mere excavation to receive
the cavity on the end of the weapon. Nordenskjöld's bird-spear
accompanying the stick has a bulb or enlargement of the shaft at the
point opposite the handle of the throwing-stick, which is new to the
collection of the National Museum. Indeed, a systematic study should now
be made of the Siberian throwing-sticks to decide concerning the
commercial relationships if not the consanguinities of the people of
that region.