142 Morten P. Porsild. 



of antler, without lateral barbs, and with short, bipartite terminal barb. 

 They have all had iron blades; e is cracked at the shaft-socket and has 

 been repaired with a lashing of sinew thread, which was sunk in a deep 

 groove. Later on a splint has gone from the back so that the line hole 

 has become bared. Then the iron blade was removed and replaced 

 with one of bone, and the harpoon became a boy's practising harpoon. 

 Hunde Eiland, Disco Bay. 



Fig. 11, I, A small harpoon of very rare form, doubtless of ivory. 

 The hinder end below the shaft-socket is cut across, with the exception 

 of a thin point directed obliquely backwards. It has had a blade which 

 has been intentionally removed after a fracture had been made by boring, 

 so the blade must be supposed to have been of stone, and to have been 

 riveted. None of the Greenlanders with whom I have spoken had pre- 

 viously seen similar forms; but in "Antiquarisk Tidsskrift" for 1852 — 54, 

 part 3, there is on p. 427 a figure of a similar harpoon, belonging to the 

 National Museum in Copenhagen, which is however wrongly recorded 

 as being a lance-point. It has also a stone blade which is riveted. No- 

 thing is stated about its size; but to judge from a throwing harpoon 

 of the usual size which is figured by the side of it, the specimen in the 

 National Museum must be considerably larger than the one figured 

 here. Greenlanders surmise that my specimen has been used for sal- 

 mon catching or for itsuarneq. 



Fig. 11, k, I, m, Three small harpoons of a form which was very 

 common around Disco Bay; k, especially, is very small. With the ex- 

 ception of the line hole there are two symmetrical planes in them. 

 They have all had iron blades. Similar specimens are figured by 

 SwENANDER and Masgn. Grecnlandcrs are of opinion that they have 

 been used for itsuarneq, perhaps, also, for salmon catching, k, ivory. 

 Disco Fjord. /, m, antler, Hunde Eiland. 



Fig. 11, n, A carelessly made harpoon without blade, for practice 

 by boys. Sarqaq. 



Fig. 11, 0, A small greatly damaged thrusting harpoon of similar 

 type as b. Whale's bone. Hunde Eiland. 



Fig. 11, p is the hinder end of a rather large, well-made throwing 

 harpoon; it has had lateral barbs similar to those on d, but has pro- 

 bably been broken in the making, as it does not appear to have been 

 used. Sarqaq. 



Fig. 11, q, r, Unfinished harpoons, discarded before they were finished. 

 Shaft-socket is entirely wanting, q, Hunde Eiland, г, Ujarassugssuk. 



А shooting harpoon for use on kayak. 



While Greenlanders are usually very conservative and afraid of 

 trying anything new, there is one family Geisler on Disco who err 

 in the opposite direction. The present head of the family, Ludvig 



