Appendix. 



Fig. 78. Bone head of a harpoon, of unusual type, un- 

 finished. The height of the body greater than its breadth. The 

 back half very thin with flat sides terininating in an undivided 

 tang-like basal barb; no lateral barbs. The point without any 

 slit for blade. The front half oval in cross section, divided 

 from the back half by two steeply inclined shoulders. Probably 

 an unfinished head of an ice-harpoon for sealing on the ice. 



North West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfaff. Stockholm Riksmuseum, Ethnographical Section. 



Figs. 79 and 80. Two toggle-harpoons without barbs, flex- 

 ible round a horizontal axis, which lies in a transverse hole 

 through the centre of their bodies. The axis is attached to the 

 end of a loose bone shaft. The body of the heads, which are 

 formed like a conic section with the lower part bevelled, has 

 in the middle of the under side a deep slit, which lies in the 

 longitudinal plane, and the innermost bottom of which opens 

 out on the opposite side of the head. Into this slit the end 

 of the shaft fits, while the head moves round the axis on which 

 it rides. The holes in the lower part of the shafts (three trans- 

 verse holes through the middle of one, one hole immediately 

 above the base of the other) are intended for the line which 

 connected these bone shafts with the longer wooden shaft of 

 the harpoon. 



Intended for sealing or salmon-spearing on the ice. 



North West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfaff. Stockholm Riksmuseum, Ethnographical Section. 



