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Morten P. Porsild. 



Fig. 56 shows three marrow extractors (patîaut or paterut, 275) ; 

 narrow semicylindrical pieces of antler, shghtly hollowed at the 

 one end. They have been frequently figured from other Eskimo tribes, 

 but appear to have escaped attention in Greenland, though they 

 were commonly used in districts where the Caribou live. I have 

 seen old specimens near Godthaab. Usually they have had a hole 

 in the one end, so as to be put on a string while travelling. This 

 may perhaps result in their being mistaken for needles. 



Disco Fjord, Hunde Eiland, Sarqaq. 



Fig. 57 shows three meat dishes (pûgutaq, 301) each cut from a 

 single piece of wood. A is rather large and heavy and has no bone 



Fig. 57. Three wooden dishes for meat. 



edgings, and does not appear to have been used long. It is how- 

 ever blackened by blood, soot and oil. Kronprins Eiland. From a 

 grave. В and С are of smaller pieces of wood, and cut considerably 

 thinner, therefore the upper edge is provided with beautifully made, 

 bone mountings, riveted to the edge with bone nails. Sarqaq. Graves. 



My collection contains in addition some tubs of coopers' 

 work; among others, forms exactly similar to the type from East 

 Greenland illustrated by Th.\lbitzer in his Fig. 27 ; they are not 

 well preserved , nor are they particularly characteristic , therefore 

 they have not been figured. 



Fig. 58, A — D are ladles for dispensing blood-soup (gajûtag, 

 122); all are of wood and carefully made, especially B, which is not, 

 however, well photographed. On A, В and D the short handle, by 



