ADZKS. 



165 



distinctive thiiii the nanu * tobacco-cutter &quot; for ;i Yankee s jack- 

 knife. 1 



Atlzcs (itiUuiMii). Even at the present day the Eskimo of Point Har 

 row use no tool for shaping large pieces of woodwork, except a short- 

 handled adz, hafted in the same manner as the old stone tools which 

 were employed before the introduction of iron. Though axes and hatch 

 ets are frequently obtained by trading, they are never used as such, 

 but the head is removed and rehafted so as to make an ad/ of it. This 

 habit is not peculiar to the people of Point Harrow. There is a liatchet 

 head, mounted in the same way, from the Anderson River, in the 

 Museum collection, and the same thing was noted in Hudson s Strait 

 by ( apt. Lyon 2 and at Iglulik by rapt. Parry/ 1 Mr. I&amp;gt;. M. Turner in 

 forms me that the Eskimo of I ngava, on the south side of Hudson s 

 Strait, who have been long in contact with the whites. Imvc learned to 

 use axes. The collection contains two such adzes made from small 

 hatchets. No. 8987:1 (972), Fig. 128, is the more typical of the two. The 

 blade is the head of a small, liatchet or tomahawk lashed to the haft 

 of oak with a stout thong of seal hide. The lashing is one piece, and 



Km. 128. Hatchet hatted MS an iiilz. 



is put on wet and shrunk tightly on. This tool is a little longer in the 

 haft than those commonly used, and the shape and material of the haft 

 is a little unusual, it being generally elliptical in section and made of 

 soft wood. 



Fig. 129, No. 56638 [309], from Utkiavwlfi, is a similar adz, but the 

 head has been narrowed by cutting off pieces from the sides (done by 

 filing part way through and breaking the piece off), and a deep trans 

 verse groove has been cut on the front face near the butt. Part of the 

 lashing is held in this groove as well as by the eye, the lower half of 

 which is filled up with a wooden plug. The haft is peculiar in being a 



. It is but .just to I&amp;gt;r. Kan to say that ho recognized tin- fart that tliene implements are not exclu 

 sively rish-eutt r. and applies this name only to indicate that lit- has treated of them simply in refer 

 ence In thrir ti r as sueli. The idea, however, that these. In-ini; slightly diHerent in sh;tpe from the 



Greenland oln 

 which it miles 



irulu, are merely fish knives, has gained a certain currency .minim anthropologists 

 rable to counteract. 



Journal, p. 8. 



3 L d Voyage, p. .WO, and pi. opp. p. 548. fig. 3. 



