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tautening of the line sends the buzz swinging back in the 

 opposite direction at an increased speed, and the lines are 

 made to perform one whole turn or two turns round each 

 other, as the tautening is slackened. By a deft 

 continuous movement of the hands, alternately taut- 

 ening and slackening the lines, the whirling to-and- 

 fro motion of the buzz is rapidly increased, whereby, 

 when it revolves at its greatest speed, a buzzing 

 sound is produced. — At Ammassalik the children 

 to this day still play with buzzes of quite the same 

 type M. 



This toy has often been found in North East 

 Greenland. The second German North Pole Expedi- 

 tion brought home two buzzes of this kind^); Ryder 

 likewise found two of them. There is quite a similar 

 one ^1, made of ivory, from Cape York at the extreme 

 north of West Greenland; it is illustrated in Culin^), 

 who has collected a series of tops and buzzes from 

 the Avestern regions''). These latter, however, differ 

 from the Greenland type, having a square or circular 

 form. Throughout Greenland, from Cape York to 

 Ammassalik, an independent and marked type of this 

 toy is found. 



Inv. Amd. 114 (Fig. 72), from Cape Borlase ^'S ^-• 



Piece of 

 Warren, is a fragment (length 19 cm) of a small bonemoun- 



bone mounting, with fine holes for the nails. The ting, с 



holes are placed reciprocally to each other as they ' 



are generally placed in sledge shoes (in pairs, 



obliquely to each other in zig-zag fashion , but with one 



') Holm, PI. 27. 



') These two buzzes are in the Museum fur Völkerkunde in Berlin, regi- 

 stered IV, A, 192. 

 ^1 Free .Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania (Cat.no. 18391). 

 *) Culin 752, fig. 1013. 

 *) Nelson 378: Boas II, 53 and 112. 



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