MURDor,,.! AMUI.KT.'i. -1.37 



tliiccJ(.iiits(,rtlM' f(»it <.r :i iciii.lcor f;i\vn, wiMi tlic skin :iimI lioiifand 

 al.iiut 1.^ inclirs nf rcndc.n aUarhcd l.rliin.l, tlm.ii-li a hole in liic end 

 (if wlii.-li is knotted al.dut.'.iiiclics of sral tlnui.';. No. S'.ir.L':. [ I.'.M [ from 

 the same villa-c, is a piccisely similar cliaini. No. SIKi'.M) |77<.»| from 



Utkavwin, is th<' suhfossi! in.-isor tooth of s c inminanf witli a liolc 



drilled tlirou.uh the root for a sfrin- to han- it np by. It was sai<l to 

 be tlie tooth of the " UK'iu'nh," a lar-e animal, Ion- exlin.-t. As the 

 natives said, '• Lleic on the land aiciioue, only the hones remain." No. 

 S!»74;t fllKI), from Utkiavwin, is a molar tooth of the same animal, 



l)n)bal)ly, weathered and old, with ;i hole freshly drilled thron.ul e 



root and a lou.n' pieee of sinew braid with the cikIs knotted to-vtlier 

 looped into It. There are also in the eolleetiou two very old teeth 

 which probably were inclosed in little sacks of skin and worn as ainii 

 lets. 



No. 80GIIS I loSO], from rtkiavwln, is the tnsk of a very young walrus, 

 only 2.^ iueh.'s long, and No. .S'.)4:>1.' 1 1 14S| from Ktkiavwln, is the canine 

 tooth of a polar bear. No. otioiT |(i5(i), from the same village, is a simi- 

 lar tooth.' 



The only amulet attached to a weapon, which we collected, is the 

 tern's bill, already alluded to, placed under the whalebone lashing on 

 the seal-spear. No. 8!)!tl(l [l(ii)4J. Perhaps the idea of this charm is that 

 the spear should plunge down ujioo the seal with as sure an aim as the 

 tern does upon its prey.- 



A number of amulets of this ehiss are always carried in the whaling 

 umiak. 1 have already mentioned the wolf-skulls, stuffed ravens ami 

 eagles, foxtails'' and bunches of feathers used for this purpose. Most 

 of these charms are parts of some rapacious animal or bird, Imt i)arts 

 of other animals seem to have some virtue ou these occasions. 



For instance, I noticed the axis vertebra, of a seal in one whaling- 

 umiak, and we coUeeted a rudely stuffed skin of a godwit (Limosa 

 lapponica baueri), which, we were informed, was "for whales." This 

 specimen (No. SOniifi fb^S], Fig. 424. from ITtkiavwin) is soiled and 

 ragged, and has a stick thrust through the neck to hold it out. The 

 neck is wrapped anmnd with a narrow striji of whalebone and some 

 coarse thread, part of which smves to lash on a slip of wood, apparently 

 to splice the stick inside. .V bit of white man's string is passed around 

 the body and tied in a loop to hang it up by. This charm is perhaps 

 to keep the boat from capsizing, since Crantz says that the Greenlanders 

 "like to fasten to their ka;jak a model of it * * * or only a dead 



ic.iiii.ai. Kiiuilii II r,,iitiil.iili(.iis, p. 45. "Another charm of great value to the mother who has a 

 y,„,i,M iiili, ,,ili, ,11111.1 i.iuih 1. 1 thu polar hear. This is useil a.s a kind of clasp to a seal-skin string, 

 ^l,;,!"^ |,,,„ , ihI iIh l,,,ily iiiiil keeps the breasts up. Her milk supply cannot fail while she wears 



.., ^.|,, ii,, 1,1 ,1, Kink s Tiili-s and Traditions (p. 445), whore the k.aiak, which had a piece of 



all,, I, I, ,; . ;,,! n ,i ,, I,, 111, .1„,„ lui- an amulet, went faster than the sheldrake flies. 



3,'„„,|,,,,., ( , ,„i. ..il 1, |i, ■nc. "The boat | for whaling] must have a fox's he.ad in front, and the 



the tern's bill ou tho seal harpoon, from Point Barrow, already referred to. 



