UEEK LANCK. 



2-1:5 



tlK- cockpit. '1 



ic liuiitcr then paddles nii.idly up aloiif^sidc ..f llic, deer, 



.111(1 stalls the animal with a ((iiick downward tlmisl' 

 This sjiear is called ka'imn. which in the i>,,int itarrow 

 dialect exactly coiTesjionds to the < licenlandic woid 

 ka|.iit. which is ajiplied to the loii-.hlad.'d spear oi' Inn-- 

 knife used tor disiiatchin- a ha 



(Is, 



r-ed) 



No. 7;u,s;{ [,-,-4J, Fiiis.2i:u,,2i:\h (head 

 [serve as a type of tlii.s weapon, of wliic 



■ciniens. All that we saw weie essentially like 

 Thelieadisiron, 4^3i,„.l„.s Ion- exclusive of the 

 and lA inches broad. The ed-es are narrowly he- 

 on botli faces. The shaft is C feet L' inches' 

 hmg, and ta[)ers from a diameter of (l-S uk h 

 about the middle to about one half inch at 

 each end. The tip is cleft to receive the tanu 

 of the bead, and .shouldered to keep tlie wliijt 

 ping- from slip])ing off. The latter was ,,t 

 sinew braid and _' inches deep. The shall is 

 painted with red ocher. 



The other ha.s a shaft C feet 4 inches lonu, 

 but otherwise resembles the precedini;. 'I he 

 heads for these lances are not always made ol 

 iron. ('o]ii>ei-, brass, etc., are sometimes used. 

 No.oCdit'.lfKKIJ isoneofai.airofneatlymade 

 copper laiu-c heads. It is .V.i implies hm,-- and 

 U wide, and .uround down on each f ice to a 

 ■sharp ed.ue without a bevel, except Just at the 



point, iietbre the introduction of iron these ^ 



lances had stone head.s, but were otherwise rm.-ni- 



of the same shape. Fifi. 2-t-t represents the ^,'',','i!,'''„''i',i,' 



head and (J inches of the shaft of (me of these lUntiHa.r 



(No. .SOilOO [ll.-,7| from Nuwfik). The shaft is new and 



rather carelessly made of a rou-h, knotty |iieci. ot 



spruce, and is ."> feet ."i'l inches Ion--. The head is ol 



black flint and L' inches lonj;-, exclusive of the taii.i;, and 



the tip of the shatt is whipped with a narrow stri]. ot 



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



passiu},'- it through a slit in the side of the shatt and 



wedgiujj it into a crack on the opposite side. This 



is an old head newly mounted for the market, and 



Fui. i43.—i)..LT lance, the head is wedged in with a bit of blue tlannel. 



No. 898!)7 [13:i4], Fig. 245, from Utkiavwiu, on the other hand, is an 



ohl sliaft r. feet 7.^ inches long, litted with a new head, which is very 



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



I Crantz, vol. 1, p. 147, PI. v, Fig. 5i and ] 



t (Jrinnell Exp., p. 479 (tig. at bottom). 



