PLATE IV.

(Mason. Throwing-sticks.)

Fig. 4. Cumberland Gulf type of throwing-stick. The specific

marks are the broad clumsy form, the separate provision for the thumb

and each finger, the bent lower extremity, and the broad furrow for the

bird-spear. Accidental marks are the mending of the handle, the material

of the stick, and the canine tooth for the spur at the bottom of the

square groove. Collected in Cumberland Gulf, by W.A. Mintzer, in 1876.

Museum number, 30013.

[Illustration: Fig. 4. Cumberland Gulf throwing-stick, back and

front.]

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 · 第 21 / 34 题