KIKE MAKING. 



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1 had no opportunity of seeing this drill manipulated, but I have con 

 vinced myself by experiment that the stick or &quot; light-stock,&quot; to use Nor- 

 denskiold s expression, must be held down by one foot, the workman 

 kneeling on the other knee. 



Flint &amp;lt;tn&amp;lt;l utei l. Fire is usually obtained nowadays by striking a 

 spark in the ordinary method from a bit of flint with a steel, usually a 

 bit of some white man s tool. IJoth are carried, as in Dr. Simpson s time, 

 in a little bag slung around the. neck, along with some tinder made of 

 the down of willow catkins mixed with charcoal or perhaps gunpowder. 

 The nints usually carried for lighting the pipe, the only ones I have seen, 

 are very small, and only a tiny fragment of tinder is lighted which is 

 placed on the tobacco. Lucifer matches (kiliaksagau) were eagerly 

 begged, but they did not appear to eare enough for them to purchase 

 them. Our friend Nlkawaalu, from whom we obtained much information 

 about the ancient customs of these people, told us that long ago, &quot;when 

 there was no iron and no flint&quot; &quot;savik pi nmut, anma pifimnt&quot; 1 they 

 used to get &quot;great fire&quot; by striking together two pieces of iron pyrites. 

 Dr. Simpson speaks 2 of two lumps of iron pyrites being used for striking 

 tire, but he does not make it clear whether he saw this at I oint Harrow 

 or only at Kotzebue Sound. Iron pyrites appears to have been used 

 quite generally among the Eskimo. Bessels saw it used with quartz 

 at Smith Sound, with willow catkins for tinder 1 and Lyoii mentions the 

 use of two pieces of the same material, with the same 

 kind of tinder, at Iglulik. 4 Willow catkins are also 

 used for tinder at the Coppermine River. 5 



No. 89825 [1133 and 1722] are some of the catkins 

 used for making the tinder, which were gathered in 

 considerable quantities at the rivers. They are called 

 kimmiuru, which perhaps means &quot;little dogs,&quot; as we 

 say &quot;catkins&quot; or &quot;pussy willows.&quot; 



Kin&amp;lt;lliiif/K. From the s.ame place they also brought 

 home willow twigs, 9 inches long, and tied with sinews 

 into bunches or fagots of about a dozen or a dozen 

 and a half each, which they said were used for kindling 

 fires. (No. 89824 [1725].) 



liuic-aiul-arrow nudiiny. A complete set of bow r - 

 and-arrow tools consists of 4 pieces, viz: a marline 

 spike, two twisters, and a feather setter, as shown in 

 Fig. 283, No. 894&amp;lt;&amp;gt;5 [902], from Utkiavwifi. The 

 pieces of this set are perforated and strung on a piece of sinew braid, 

 4 inches long, with a knot at each end. 



The Marline spike. This is aflat, four-sided rod of walrus ivory, 5-0 



1 Compare this with Dr. Simpson s statement, quoted above, that stones for arrowheads were brought 

 by the Xunatanmiun from the Ku wnk Kiver. 

 &quot;Op. cit., p. 24:i. 



3 Naturalist, vol. 18, pt, 9, p. X07. 



4 Journal, pp. 210 and 231. 

 Fraukliu, First Expecl., vol. 2, p. 1HK. 



FIG. 283. Sot of bow- 



mill arrow ((Mils. 



