533 



Found by the second German North Pole Expedition (Ger- 

 mania) in 1870. 



Museum für Völkerkunde (regist IV. A. 198). Berlin. 



Fig. 104 is the same kind of implement as the foregoing, 

 likewise from North East Greenland. The use to which these 

 implements were put is unkown. Cf. inv. Anid 99. 



Length 39 cm. 



Inv. Nathorst (Hammar). Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



Fig. 105 is an implement of wood, from the same district, 

 which has a similar handle to the two others, while the other 

 end is formed like a mallet. The natural bend or knee of 

 the branch has been turned to account in carving this imple- 

 ment, which is quite unique. The hammering surface of the 

 mallet has deep scars, as if it had been used against some- 

 thing sharp. The handle is narrowest in the middle; in cross 

 section it is circular in front (nearest the head), triangular in 

 the middle, while at the back it flattens out and assumes the 

 form of the handle of a throwing-stick. 



Mallets or mauls of bone or wood are spoken of as com- 

 mon among the western Eskimo^), being used in the prepara- 

 tion of food, or as implements for hammering in wooden nails 

 etc. In the Gjøa collection at Christiania there are several 

 implements of this kind (of horn or bone) which have been 

 used to beat train-oil out of (frozen?) blubber. One of them 

 has a handle with three finger-rests. The West Greenland 

 designation for an instrument of this kind is kauarsit (< kau- 

 arpaa 'beats frozen blubber, to get train-oil from it, when it 

 thaws'l. Cf. inv. Amd. 99 and 72. 



Length, 30 cm. North East Greenland. 



Inv. Nathorst (Hammar). Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



Fig. 106. There belong to the Amdrup collection some 

 few fragments of bone and wood implements which were dis- 

 covered in some of the places mentioned in the foregoing 



*) Nelson 79; Murdoch 98 (Figs. 31, 32 etc.); Bogoras If 



