Distribution and Use of the Greenland Bow. 
Angmagssalik District and the southern East Coast. 
Г Greenland, аз elsewhere in the Eskimo regions, the bow was 
used especially in reindeer hunting, which may account for the 
unique fact that this weapon was found to be entirely unknown in 
two distinct localities on the arrival of the Europeans. 
One of these places was the Angmagssalik District with the 
southern East Coast. In the last-named locality, the reindeer was 
unknown as far back as the days of Cranz!, and the recollection of 
it had, in the first half of the 19th century, already so far faded out 
that the natives there believed the reindeer furs worn by GRAAH's 
women rowers from the West Coast to be fashioned from the skins 
of some exotic breed of dog?. The bow, however, had not altogether 
passed into oblivion; the natives could still recount how the adven- 
turous ‘‘Inland-dwellers” used to come down to the coast in spring, 
armed with bows and arrows*, and Rink has also placed on record 
a folk-tale from the southern East Coast (‘‘Kalerarmiuarsuk’’) in which 
mention is made of the bow’. 
Farther to the north, near Angmagssalik, old stone butts for use 
in reindeer hunting have been found®, and Kommandør Нотм noted 
that the tradition of reindeer and reindeer hunting was here still kept 
alive in the folk-tales of the locality®. Repeated mention is also made 
1 CRANZ, p. 346. 
2 GRAAH, р. 98. 
CRANZ, p. 344 f. — The legends about inland-dwellers are considered, 
and doubtless correctly, as recollections of the Indians. It will perhaps 
hardly be going too far if we suppose that their appearance in the spring, 
as distinct from other seasons, has some connection with the reindeer hunt- 
ing of the Barren Ground Indians, which takes place at this time of year, 
when the hunters would follow their game to the northward, and thus come 
in touch with the Eskimo. 
4 Esk. Event. og Sagn. Suppl. p. 136. 
5 Hom, р. 57. — Leg. and Tales р. 293; — THALBITZER, р. 405. 
$ Leg. and Tales р. 247, 275, 292, 293. 
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