IMPLEMENTS USED IN SEAL HUNTING. 



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blade on the top. The lance serves to dispatch the animal after it 

 has been harpooned with the igimang. 



The joint prevents the shaft from being broken by the struggles 

 of the animal. Its place is behind the hunter on the right side of 

 the kayak, the point being directed toward the stern. Generally a 

 second lance is carried on the left side of the boat parallel with the 

 other. It is either of the same kind or a slender shaft with a long- 

 point firmly inserted in it (kapun, ipun). The point is about one 

 and one-third of a foot to one and one-half feet long. This weapon, 

 however, is more particularly in use for hunting deer in the lakes 

 and ponds. 



Fici. 430. Spear heads. (National Mii!ieum,Wasliiiiifton. Fio. «! Large si>eai head. (National 



(I, 340Tli : h. Mm.) Museum, Wa.shm{fton 1013b ) ' 



The last implement in the kayak gear to be described is the bird 

 spear, nuirn (Fig. -133), with its throwing board, miqsang (Fig. 434). 

 It has a shaft of about four feet in length, flattened at the lower end. 

 Among the natives on the east and southeast of Baffin Land it has 

 an iron prong at its point, whereas in Iglulik it has two points of 

 unequal length, with double barbs. Three double barbed j^rongs 

 are attached to the center of the shaft. They have a sharp bend at 

 their lower part, the points riinning parallel to the shaft. The 

 prongs of the Greenland dart are straight and diverge from the shaft. 

 The lower end of the bird spear iits into the groove of the throwing 

 board. Therefore the end of the shaft is squared. The ivory knob 

 at the end of the spear contains a small hole fyr the insertion of the 



