443 



It bears some slight resemblance to the post^) at the 

 bottom of the stern of an umiak\ but the latter generally con- 

 sists of two pieces and has holes bored in it. Moreover, the 

 object here would be rather small for this purpose. There is, 

 however, a warrant for the comparison in Turner's description 

 of the umiak of the West-Labrador Eskimo^): — "The ends 

 are nearly perpendicular .... the stem and stern posts are 

 nearly alike, the latter having but little slope, and are cut 

 from curved or crooked stems of trees. A tree may be found 

 which, when hewed, will form the stern-post and keel in one 

 length. Otherwise the fore and aft posts have places cut out 

 for the insertion of the respective ends of the keel, and are 

 fastened firmly by stout thongs of sealskin thrust through 

 holes bored in the wood and ingeniously lashed". 



Inv. Amd. 73, 74 and 75 (Figs. 45 a, b and c), found at 

 Dunholm, are three heavy bone foreshafts, for nailing and lashing 

 firmly to the top of the wooden shaft of the harpoon, with 

 sockets in the free end for the insertion of the loose bone shaft 

 which forms the first joint of the harpoon and carries the 

 harpoon head. The biggest of them measures 14 cm in length, 

 its elliptical cross section at the top is about 4*2 cm by 3'4 cm. 



In order to permit of their being fastened to the wooden 

 »haft, the lower part of these foreshafts have been given the 

 form of semi-cylindrical wedge-like tangs, rounded on one side, 

 cut to a bevel on the other, so that the bottom edge is sharp. 

 A little above this edge there is a transversely bored hole 

 which seems intended for a nail. Only in the largest of the 

 pieces is there, about in the middle of the plane of the bevel, 

 a transverse, upward-turned shoulder which is meant to rest 



M Boas (I, 527, flg. 479) calls (using the Baffin Land dialect, or erroneously?) 

 a post of this kind kiglo. The Greenlandic word Iùllo (Kleinschmidt 

 kifjdlo) designates a flat cross-piece resting upon the post, to which the 

 ends of the gunwale are lashed and used as a seat in the stern. 



») Turner 235: cf. Murdoch I, 335—336. 



