The Material Culture of the Eskimo in West Greenland. 



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generally of rather superior finish. A short trace is then attached to 

 this with a bone cross-pin, as with a dog trace, and the other end is 

 made fast to the orsiut. Kalutit, however, is often used for this, or 

 one is content with orsiut alone, and fastens it 

 in some strap or thong. 



Fig. 36, a — e shows various neck-pieces for 

 kalutit. Fig. 36 a is of a whale's bone, very- 

 substantial and of the same construction as 

 those shown in Fig. 34, a. The others have 

 three holes in the centre and there are grooves 

 for the line between two holes on each side 

 alternately. They have been joined to the 

 nagtoraq-piece in a slightly different manner 

 in that the line has formed three connecting 

 pieces. ^ 



a. A whale's bone. Kronprins Eiland. 



b, с, е. Antler, Hunde Eiland. 

 d. Antler, Kronprins Eiland. 

 Fig. 36, / and g are navel-pieces. In g the 



handle is wanting. Both are of antler; Hunde 

 Eiland. 



Mason (pp. 237 sqq.) in his monograph on 

 harpoons, explicitly mentions the peculiar hinged 

 and riveted harpoons for itsuarneq and fishing 

 described by Holm from Angmagsalik, and says, 

 very correctly, that as regards their form they 

 are unique in America. Mason then illustrates 

 in his Fig, 23 an implement which he calls 

 "hinged toggle head. East Greenland, after Fig. 37. Copy of a figure 

 Gustav Holm." The figure is reproduced here oi <i kingugdlersuit v^hich 

 (Fig. 37) and it will be seen that it is the ^^^'^.l "f' erroneously 

 ^. . .J. ,j ■ ,\ e ^ • +Л* published as a harpoon 



navel-piece {kingugdlersiut) tor a towing outfit, ^^^ itsuarneq. From 



and that it has been more than once repaired East Greenland (After 

 by riveting. The figure does not appear in O. T. Mason). 



Holm and must be a drawing from a specimen 



in Washington Museum. It is strange that an implement of this 

 kind can be regarded as a harpoon, because the movable piece, 

 especially after its having been repaired, cannot here be turned far 

 enough to become a prolongation of the handle, nor is it sufficiently 

 pointed and when thrust invariably turns on one side and fails to 



^ SwENANDER has amongst his harpoons an odd form where the line has 

 been fastened with a knot in the harpoon itself and has afterwards passed through 

 three serial holes with grooves on the sides alternately. Perhaps it is a malasiut 

 which has been hastily (for sai>ssarneq?) converted into a thrusting harpoon. 



