40 G. Holm. 



tached at either end of a piece of seal thong. This strap makes 

 up the space where the arms fail in passing round the objects 

 (fig. 336). 



In front of or under the sleeping platform are the men's boxes, 

 in which they keep everything belonging to their implements (figs. 

 288, 289). They are used as foot-stools by the men, when they sit 

 on the platform and work. The boxes are made of stout boards 

 joined with wooden nails. The lid may be sunk in the upper edge 

 of the boards, and the lock consists of a pin passing through 

 the box into the lid (fig. 289 e), or the lid may lie on top of the 

 box and be attached by seal thong hinges, and the lock consists of 

 a buckle gripping two ivory pins on the box (figs. 289 a, b). 



As the people of Angmagsalik have evidently only recently 

 passed out of the stone age, their cutting implements are extremely 

 primitive. Thus, for the making of hunting implements, umiaks 

 and kaiaks they only use a knife made of a piece of hoop, and, 

 often only 1 inch long (figs. 181 to 185; 204). The knives can also 

 be used for hollowing out things. The natives can with the aid of 

 their teeth instantly bend a knife, so that it can serve as a hollow- 

 ing implement, and just as rapidly straighten it out (fig. 183). In 

 order to economise iron, a piece is often riveted on, when the 

 knife has worn down too much to be used (fig. 182). 



Stone knives are not used as working implements by the pre- 

 sent generation, and only old people can remember their parents 

 having used them; one can, however, still find them lying in their 

 boxes, even good specimens with the handle on, which have been 

 preserved as a memorial. One knife, which is made of a hard 

 stone, has tiny teeth round the edge, like a saw (fig. 204 b). The knife 

 handles are often of natural bone (figs. 204, a— e). Sometimes the stones 

 were used just as they were, as they lay on the beach; sometimes 

 they were roughly hewn into chips; a few were prettily polished. 

 They told us that in old times people could work wood and bone, 

 make umiaks and cut ornaments, in short do everything with stone 

 knives, as well as they now do with iron. Wood, of course, was 

 only worked by scraping. 



In carving large objects, a wooden plate is placed on the knees, 

 to prevent one cutting oneself (figs. 192, 193). The same purpose 

 is served by finger-stalls made of skin, which are placed on the thumb 

 of the right hand (fig. 192). They are made like the toe of a boot, 

 and are embroidered in the same way; sometimes they are made 

 like two boot toes placed together. 



The drills consist of a bow with a rawhide cord with which 

 the rotation of the pointed shaft is produced, and a mouth-piece 



