Eskimo had to drill through with the clumsiest of 

 drills. Today the Eskimos make these drills with 

 pieces of steel or tempered nails. They let a piece 

 of copper cartridge into the upper part of the drill, 

 which they hold between their teeth while working, 

 and they operate the drill shaft with the ancient 

 bow and thong which was discovered at no man 

 knows what ancient day of the world. 



As for you and me, if we want a weapon we can 

 go down to the store and buy it. If we want a 

 whole kit of tools we can buy them. If we want a 

 knife we can choose from dozens of patterns. If 

 we want ivory ornaments, we can buy them ready 

 made, done by Chinese or Japanese or Siamese, and 

 we do not have to decorate them as the Eskimo 

 does, with the three-cornered point of a hardened 

 nail let into a piece of ivory for a handle. 



If we want to go fishing, we can go down town 

 and get the most wonderful variety of fishing gear, 

 ranging from cheap Cincinnati bass hooks to the 

 splendid salmon flies which cost a couple of dollars 

 apiece. We would call it something of a hardship 

 to go out and get fish enough for breakfast if we 

 had no better fishhook than this one made by some 

 Eskimo on the Arctic sea. It is, indeed, a curious 

 lure, about three inches long, made of a piece of 

 ivory backed with a piece of black whalebone, and 



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