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CHAPTER VI. 

 Wooden Implements. 



I may mention as having some relation to one of the objects of the pre- 

 ceding Chapter, namely fishing, the hivofsdz* and the talh'j.^ The former 



Fig. 96. 

 is the wooden maul which serves to drive home the piles of the salmon 

 weirs used by the Carriers. It is bottle-shaped, and of the hardest wood 

 obtainable, generally birch {Bitiila papyraced). 



Fig- 97- 

 The latter is the wooden float attached to their nets. Here we cannot 

 fail to remark that the Western Denes had in this connection an oppor- 

 tunity of exhibiting at least a minimum of artistic taste, and, as in most 

 cases, did not improve it. The cut (fig. 97) shows the working of the 

 float when in actual use. 



Such entirely wooden implements as are unconnected with either 

 fishing or hunting are relatively i^"^' and unimportant. Therefore we 

 need not tarry long in their description. Commencing with those which 

 serve recreative purposes, we may refer in the first place to the tdtqiih 

 (fig. 98) of which mention has already been made in the course of a 



Fig. 98. 



* Second category of nouns. 



+ A verbal noun almost equivalent to "it floats up." 



