The Material Culture of the Eskimo in West Greenland. 



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Figure Ы, A shows a somewhat old and very well manufactured 

 throwing stick of drift-wood intended for unâq. The form is the one 

 most general here-about for the time. Here, on the whole, unâq is 

 mainly used; in other districts chiefly ernangnaq; but both can also be 

 seen indiscriminately used in the same settlement. 



The terminal bone-piece {quia, 159) is of a whale's bone, it has a long 

 tenon which is held fast to the stick by three bone pegs placed trans- 

 versely. The hole is U-shaped, and the top edge is carefully rounded, 

 so that it can easily release the bone peg on the shaft. The shaft groove 

 {ilugdlinera, 92) is about 1 cm. deep, and carefully finished, both in 

 wood and in bone mountings. The handle (tigordla of tiguleq, 363) has 

 two well rounded notches to receive the thumb and forefinger. From 

 these, downwards, the edges have mountings of bone bands, and on the 

 lower part is an end-piece é 



{kingora, 182) all of a 

 whale's bone, and riveted 

 wdth bone nails. The hole 

 (putua, 303) is oblong, with 

 its greatest diameter across, 

 in it is fixed a bone ring 

 which is also held fast with 

 bone pegs. Sometimes this 

 hole is lined with shreds 

 of gull quills, which are 

 sewn through a circle of 

 small holes round the larger 

 hole. 



North-west Disco, on 

 the shore: this throwing 

 stick has drifted for a long time, as there are large holes in it from 

 the boring of Pholas. 



Figure 14, ß is a greatly damaged throwing stick for darts. The 

 lower end is entirely missing and the under side is very moss-grown. 

 The upper end differs greatly in construction from the usual forms, in 

 which the throwing stick simply has a bone pin (qilinga, 143) fixed 

 obliquely, which acts on a bone button cut transversely, or at most 

 slightly indented, at the end of the shaft {qaquisâ, 123). Here, on the 

 contrary, the qilik (Fig. 15, A) is provided with a right-angled branch 

 which goes down into the stick, which here, therefore, is not exposed 

 to the danger of splitting, and the qaquiseq (Fig. 15, B) is shaped like 

 opened lips, with a rounded hollow between them. Both the ends and 

 the edges have had bone mountings, the bone pegs of which still remain. 

 Hunde Eiland, in an old grave. 



Figure 14, С is a not particularly well-made throwing stick for a 

 dart. The qilik has split the stick and has fallen out, and there seems 





Fig. 15. Divergent construction of qilik (A) belong- 

 ing to the throwing stick В in the preceding figure, 

 and of its qaquiseq (B) on the hinder end of the 

 dart shaft. 



