IMPLEMENTS AND WEAPONS. 



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of walrus line; a stand for clothes; and the clothes them- 

 selves completed the whole worldly goods of this poor family.* 



FIG. 214. 



FIG. 215. 



FIG. 216. 



Esquimaux Knife. 



Esquimaux Knife. 



On their travelling expeditions, even less than this is neces- 

 sary ; raw meat and a fur bag are all they require. 



The implements of the Esquimaux are very ingenious. 

 Besides knives resembling those figured above, the women 

 use others of a semicircular form, and very similar to the 

 curious semi-lunar knives (pi. 1, fig. 3) which are so common 



* Kane's Arctic Explorations, vol. i. p. 381. 



