9<)n 'Illi: I'l'lNl' BAHIJOW 



is ,nmlc to work aj^Miiist tl,.' s,,lit su,n,.M. of a sti.-k ofspruro IS inches 

 Ion-, alon- the middle of widcii is cut a -ash. to -ivc the drill a start. 

 Thrc.. c,,uidistant ci.H.lar pits, charrc.l and Llark.-i,..!, were l.orcd out 

 l,v the tip of the drill, whi.-h <leveloi.ed heat eiiou-h to set lire to the 

 sawdust produce.1. Tinder was probably nsed to catch and Imld the 



Most authors who have treated ot the Kskinio have described an 

 iMsiruiueiit of this sort in use eitlier in tbruier times or at the present 



.lav.' 



Amou- most i'.skimo, however, a bow is used to work the drill. The 

 oidv exei'ptious (o this rule apjicars to have been theancieut (ireenland- 

 ers and lhepeo]ile of Hudson I!ay (see the i)assages from Hakluyt, 

 Craul/.. and ICllis, just ([uoted.) Ohamisso, however,^ speaks of seeing 

 the Aleutians at Tnalaska produce tire by means of a stick worked by 

 a sirinu- nuddn^- two turns about the stick and held and drawn with 

 tioth hands, with the upper end of the stick turning in a piece of wood 

 held in the month. When a piece of fir was turned against another piece 

 of the same wood tire was often produced i u a few seconds. This passage 

 ai>iiears to have escaped the usually keen observation of Mr. W. H. 

 Dall. who. sjx'akin.u' of the ancient Aleutians, says: " The 'flddle-bow 

 drill' was an instrumi'nt largely used in their carving and working bone 

 anil i\<)ry; but for obtaining tire but two pieces of quarz were struck 

 together," etc.^ 



drill used at Smith Sound witli a bow and 



is mfinncr ; he took a piece 

 n Tand stirko liko unto a 

 !i .1 ].:> > r „r Ifther, by bis 



• 11, . ! ,1,, ,, ,l,o,i l;ln,k..l .111 111 li.c n,M.imlnrI,tI„-yrMl.;,l,..ll„ I Cl.'.r,,! li;,r,l Wood, till by tho 



li ; , ! ;. _.n - Mill il, ..ml ,11 II _. uid a stick ver.v quick with a string 



II,,,. ij' ,, ! .■:. .'I I 1 1 .■ I ' ■ M ■: : (... . i.i 'ImI, vol. 1, p. 145. 



Ia..ii .1 il p Jl"i -.i\ - ili.ii .1 IJ .: ! I'll! ..M M .ihl. 1" |.i..c-ure "flre by the friction of apin of 



„- I 111 111. I I'll. I.I .niiiili' I I I .mil |iii --111 iliiwii like a diill from above." This wa.s worked with a 



Itnw .mil w illiiu i.itkiii- \Mii II III liii tiiiilij. A man informed them that "he had learned it from his 

 failii 1 i.iiti. 1 iiii iiiiiii'i 111- lit 111 III lilt inility : the two lumps of iron pyrites certainly answering the 



"They haxf a \ ii\ .lixir-ni^ \I.i Ii.iil .if kindlinj; Fire; in order to which, they prepare two small 

 Vioeesof dry W..n.l uhi. h haviir.; mail. Il.it. t hey next make a. small Hole in each, and having fitted into 



llu'S!' Holes a litil'-' \liii'li I' iiM'l' ' r..l" w [,i.. which a Thong is fastened, they whirl it about thereby 



with such a V. 1.1 ■ -i ii. ■ i ''•. I'i.ces of Wood one against the other, this Motion soon sets 



them on tin-.' I ^ n iv, p. 2:i4. 



A picture. .1 1 . 1' I ii.ige 132, in which a man holds the socket, while a woman 



works the til. .im l; ly. nc.-ir Chesterfield Inlet). 



Itaealsom. 1,1. I . i . i In im. i.--ion in 1847 (Niirrative, p. 187) i and there is a 



H|K'cinien in tli. 1 i i i. I 1. ^l i. larl.ane, and said to be the kind "in use until 



lately" in tli. M -i .i 



Dall tigur.^ : ! ! ■ ■ i,,,,, in in, ily in us,- at Norton Sound (Ala.ska. p. 142) ; 



and Hooper (Tents. ,.i.- ,. , , : , ,1 : ,i PL, , , I;,, 



From Nordenskiold S.I. .. ..._:. , ,, i.,. 



*CoDlribution to N. 



