MURDOCH. ] CLUBS. 191 
WEAPONS. 
As would naturally be expected from what has been said of the 
peaceful character of these people, offensive weapons, specially intended 
for use against men, are exceedingly rare. In case 
of quarrels between individuals or parties the bows, 
spears, and knives intended for hunting or general 
use would be turned against their enemies. Even 
their rifles, nowadays, are kept much more for hunt- 
ing than as weapons of offense, and the revolvers of 
various patterns which many of them have obtained 
from the ships are chiefly carried when traveling back 
and forth between the two villages as a protection 
against a possible bear. We, however, obtained a 
few weapons which were especially designed for tak- 
ing human life. One of these was a little club 
(ti’glun) (No. 89492 [1310], Fig. 172, from Utkiavwint) 
made of the butt end of an old pickax head of whale’s 
bone, with the point cut down to a blunt end. It is 
6-4 inches long and meant to be clenched in the 
hand like a dagger, and used for striking blows, prob- 
ably at the temple. The transverse grooves for haft- 
ing give a good hold for the fingers. This was the 
only weapon of the kind seen. SE eRe. ee 
We collected a single specimen of a kind of slung club. 
Shot, No. 89472 [905] (Fig. 173), made 
of a roughly ovoid lump of heavy bone, 
the symphysis of the lower jaw of a 
walrus, 34 inches long. At the smaller 
end two large holes are bored in 
obliquely so as to meet under the sur- 
face and form a channel through which 
is passed a slip of white seal skin about 
15 inches long, the ends of which 
fasten together with two slits, so as to 
make a loop. This may be compared 
with the stone balls used by the ancient 
Aleuts for striking a man on the temple. 
The commonest weapon of offense 
was a broad dagger made of a bone of 
the polar bear. This was said to be 
especially meant for killing a “bad 
man,” possibly for certain specified 
offenses or perhaps in cases of insanity. 
Fia. 173.—Slungshot made of walrus jaw. Tysane persons were sometimes killed 
in Greenland, and the act was considered ‘neither decidedly admissi- 
