MURDOCH.] 



DKKK LANCE. 



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the cockpit. The hunter then paddles rapidly up alongside of the deer, 

 grasps the lance near the butt, as he would a dagger, 

 and stabs the animal with a quick downward thrust. 

 This spear is called ka pun, which in the Point Barrow 

 dialect exactly corresponds to the Greenlaudic word 

 kaput, which is applied to the*loug-bladed spear or long 

 knife used for dispatching a harpooned seal. 1 The word 

 ka pun means simply &quot;an instrument for stabbing.&quot; 



No. 73183 [524], Figs. 243, 2436 (head enlarged), will 

 [serve as a type of this weapon, of which we have two 

 specimens. All that we saw were essentially like this. 

 The head is iron, 4 inches long exclusive of the tang, 

 and 1 J inches broad. The edges are narrowly beveled 

 on both faces. The shaft is feet 2 inches 

 long, and tapers from a diameter of 0-8 inch 

 about the middle to about one-half inch at 

 each end. The tip is cleft to receive the tang 

 of the head, and shouldered to keep the whip 

 ping from slipping oft . The latter was of 

 sinew braid and 2 inches deep. The shaft is 

 painted with red ocher. 



The other has a shaft 6 feet 4 inches long, 

 but otherwise resembles the preceding. The 

 heads for these lances are not always made of 

 iron. Copper, brass, etc., are sometimes used. 

 No. 50099 [100] is one of a pair of neatly made 

 copper lance heads. It is 5-9 inches long and 

 1 wide, and grtmud down on each face to a 

 sharp edge, without a bevel, except just at the 

 point. Before the introduction of iron these ^z 

 lances had stone heads, but were otherwise FIG. 244. 



,, . , -r,. Piirt of deer 



ot the same shape. Fig. 244 represents the lail( . ( , witll 

 head and inches of the shaft of one of these &amp;gt; &quot; ai1 - 

 (No. 89900 [1157] from Nuwuk). The shaft is new and 

 rather carelessly made of a rough, knotty piece of 

 spruce, and is 5 feet 5f inches long. The head is of 

 black flint and 2 inches long, exclusive of the tang, and 

 the tip of the shaft is whipped with a narrow strip of 

 light-colored whalebone, the end of which is secured by 

 passing it through a slit in the side of the shaft and 

 wedging it into a crack on the opposite side. This 

 is an old head newly mounted for the market, and 

 the head is wedged in with a bit of blue flannel. 

 No. 89897 [1324], Fig. 245, from Utkiavwlfi, on the other hand, is an 

 old shaft 5 feet 7i inches long, fitted with a new head, which is very 

 broad, and shaped like the head of a bear lance. It is of variegated 



1 Crantz, vol. 1, p. 147, PI. V, Fig. 5; and Kane, 1st Grinuell Exp., p. 479 (fig. at bottom). 



FIG. 243. Deer lane 



