490 



having been made obliquely towards the axis of the bone; the 

 narrow walls which have been bored out might easily have 

 been eut away. Only the surface of the narrow bottom edge^ 

 which projects round the lower mouth of the pipe and runs 

 all the way round forming the bottom side of the groove, is 

 completely rounded. 



I conceive it to be a ferrule placed on the lower end of thfr 

 handle of a whip. The lower part of this wooden handle must 

 have been cut in the form of a tang to fit into the pipe; the 

 shoulder of the tang must have rested up against one of the 

 edge surfaces of the pipe (that which on the figure faces up- 

 wards). At the other narrower mouth of the pipe was inserted 

 a loose pike {tooq) of bone, which may perhaps have been 

 wedged in a hole at the end of the wooden shaft. In order ta 

 strengthen the point of junction the ferrule {qaateq) was prob- 

 ably also wrapped round with a thong in the said slit^). 



The people of Ammassalik still constantly use a bone 

 pike fastened to the bottom end of a whip handle^), which 

 is often of great use in cutting away the corner of a hum- 

 mock which bars the way, or for knocking hard frozen 

 snow from the sledge runners, or to dig hard into the snow 

 in sledging on land, as a kind of brake in coasting down steep 

 slopes. 



Inv. Amd. 104 and 105 (Fig. 68 a and b), from Cape Bor- 

 lase Warren). Two small roughly worked bones, 4*5 and 6*5 cm 

 long respectively, cylindrical at the top, but throughout the 

 greater part of their length bevelled from four sides, with 

 two sides more oblique than the other two, so that they are 

 flattish at the bottom; thus the whole of the lower part is 

 formed like a tang. In the upper circular end surface is seen 



') In a similar manner the ivory head (qatirn) at the end of the shaft of 

 the large harpoon is stuck so closely on to it, that it sticks without 

 being either riveted or tied together. (Boas I, 490.) 



-) Holm PI. 15. 



