IMPLEMENTS USED IN SEAL HUNTING. 



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kayak for removing the sleet which forms on the skin. When the 

 boat has been pulled on shore, it is turned upside down and the 

 whole bottom is cleaned with this implement. A double bladed 

 paddle (pauting) is used with the boat. It has a narrow handle 

 (akudnang), which fits the hand of the boatman and widens to about 

 four inches at the thin blades (maling), which are edged with ivory. 

 Between each blade and the handle there is a ring (qudluqsiuta). 



The kayak gear consists of the large harpoon and its line (to which 

 the sealskin float is attached), the receptacle for this line, tlie Ijird 

 spear (with its throwing board), and two lances. 



I 1 41 I r 1 \ 1 111 Fig 420 Manner of at^ FiG. 421. Tokangor hai-poon point 



(tl 111 I ^l lit \ 111 I il Mil tachrng the tH o pi moipal in sheath, iln the possession of Cap- 

 seuiu Washington J41(ll ; , paitb of the haipoon tain John O. Spicer, Groton, Comi.) 5 



The large harpoon (Fig. 417) is used for hunting seals and walrus 

 from the kayak. The shaft (qij\;qtenga) consists of a stout pole from 

 four and a half to five feet in length, to which an ivory knob is fast- 

 ened at the lower end. At its center of gravity a small piece of 

 ivory (tikagung) is attached, which serves to support the hand in 

 throwing the weapon. A remarkable pattern of this tikagung, which 

 nicely fits the hand of tlie hunter, is represented in the first of the 

 series of Fig. 41. S, and unnthcr one, which differs only in size from 



