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already completed. They produce so to speak by "heart" the 

 forms of apparatus they are accustomed to. 



One cannot help being impressed by the ease, rapidity and 

 practical sense with which they work, in spile of the lack of 

 all the many means of assistance , which the European work- 

 shop affords our workers. I was present, for example, when 

 Samik sawed through a piece of an antier of a reindeer, long- 

 ways with a ship's saw. First of all he chopped off the round 

 tines on two diametrically opposite sides by means of the sharp 

 back-edge of the saw, so that he was freed from cutting 



Fig. 34. 



Harpoon point; a piece of leather 

 thong passes through the cross- 

 hole. 7,6 cm long, up to 1,6 cm broad, 

 1,5 cm thick. 



Fig. 3.5. 



Harpoon point of bone with a 



small iron tip, fixed by a nail. 



13,8cm long, up to 3,7 cm broad, 



2 cm thick. 



through these parts. A hand-worker would do exactly the same. 

 Then he began to saw the antler, holding it in the left hand, 

 lightly supported on the left leg. Later also, he sawed off 

 some small pieces in the same manner. It looked most danger- 

 ous but was carried out with steadiness and accuracy. 



They all seem to be able to use their hands with the same 

 cleverness and certainty. I can remember, for example, how 

 Uvdloriark sat outside his tent and with the back-edge of his 

 ship's saw cut into shape a walrus-rib, which was to be used 

 as the frame of a drum. He held the bone enclosed in his left 

 hand, with the back of the hand resting on the legging of the 

 kamik of the left leg, and cut right down towards the index 



