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Morten P. Porsild. 



Fig. 3 (see text). 

 From a drawing by G. Kleist. 



ready on two forked pegs fixed in the snow. A small snow mound is 



often built for shelter from the wind. This mode of hunting requires 



great patience and perseverance, mduneq (the "maupok-huniing''' of the 



authors) is the most laborious and 

 least profitable method of hunting 

 on ice. It is found only in places 

 where large stretches of sea are 

 frozen over, and only so long as 

 no better expedient exists, but as 

 soon as there are openings in the 

 ice, or when there is a possibility 

 of making nets, the method is 

 immediately abandoned. The 

 Central Eskimo have a number 

 of "seal-indicators," "ear-trum- 

 pets," etc., for help when hunting 

 (see Boas, Lyon, Parry, Amund- 

 sen and others). The harpoon shaft 

 is short, at the other end it has 



an iron pick with which to widen the hole ; such a harpoon shaft with 



an iron pick is the so-called ice-universal-tool tog. This method of hunting 



is illustrated by Hans Egede in his "Per- 



lustration," p. 59.^ An excellent drawing 



by Lyon is found in Parry, p. 172.^ 

 The hunter is called mdutoq from mdupoq, 



205, who hunts in this way. 

 This mode of hunting is now quite 



obsolete in West Greenland. A form allied 



to it is still occasionally used: • — 



2. N igparneq. (Fig. 4) The hunter does 



not make so many preparations. He takes 



no stool to sit upon; but does, sometimes, 



take a low foot-stool to stand upon. He 



builds no mound of snow for a shelter, 



but simply stations himself at the breathing 



hole with the harpoon on the tôq in one 



hand, and the line in the other. Some- 

 times the line which terminates in a loop 



is laid on the ice. As soon as the seal is struck, the tôq is turned 



round and the iron pick is driven through the loop into the ice, 



and this gives an excellent hold on the seal. In contradistinction 



Fig. 4 (see text). 

 From a drawing by G. Kleist. 



^ Fabricius (see "Om de grønlandske Sæle II", p. 86) is my authority for 

 the statement, as I have not access to Egede's work. 



- Neither Parry nor Lyon has descriptions of the methods of hunting which 

 are illustrated so excellently in their drawings. 



