507 



Fig. 81. A little bone-toggle of a similar type to the two 

 previous ones, fixed on a short bone shaft with a key-hole- 

 shaped expansion at the bottom. It can hardly have been used 

 as a harpoon, but must have been employed for holding a 

 seal-skin float in the kaiak. The float (bladder) has at one end 

 a nozzle of bone ; in the latter there is a loop, just large 

 enough to allow the toggle (fig. 80), which is attached itself to 

 the kaiak by means of strap, to be passed through it, when 

 turned lengthwise; but, when it is drawn back in the opposite 

 direction it turns crosswise and catches, and in this manner 

 holds the bladder in position. 



West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfaff. Stockholm Riksmuseum, Ethnographic Section. 



Fig. 82. Weapon head of bone, shaped like the head of 

 an arrow or a bird-dart, with expanded head, in which there 

 is a slit for the insertion of a blade. A single lateral barb at 

 right angles to the blade. Cf. inv. Amd. 17. 



West(?) Greenland. 



From a little collection of Greenland stone and bone implements which 

 in 1876 was presented to the ethnographical museum at Vienna by the late 

 Steinhauer, Superintendent of the ethnographical museum at Copenhagen ^). 



K. k. naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, ethnographische Abteilung. (Inv. 

 No. 4905.) Vienna. 



Fig. 83 and 84. Two pairs of lateral bone points for 

 placing on the wooden shafts of bird-darts. They are of the 

 ordinary Greenland type, slightly curved, with unilateral barbs 

 on the inner side, and one or two transverse holes for lashing, 

 and a notch in the outer edge right at the bottom for a basal 

 lashing. — On each bird-dart shaft are fixed three bone heads 

 of this kind, with their bases resting against the shaft, so that 

 the projecting heads form an equilateral triangle. 



The sixteen specimens of this implement which are found 

 in Inv. PfalT (Stockholm) from West Greenland all have unilateral 



M F. Heger 17. 



