46 G. Holm. 



having once capsized. This is, of course, due to the fact that the 

 Angmagsalik people go out hunting in their kaiaks only during the 

 calm season of the year. In former times, they say, it was no 

 uncommon thing for women to go out kaiaking. Now there are 

 only two women who can manage it, and they live on the southern 

 part of the East coast at Akorninarmiut. 



Hunting weapons. Kaiak implements. — In hunting from the 

 kaiak, the people of Angmagsalik use the usual Eskimo implements, 

 harpoons, lances, seal-darts and bird-darts. As these hunting im- 

 plements have been described in many places, I shall content 

 myself with mentioning some few details regarding these imple- 

 ments, especially points in which they differ from those of the West 

 Greenlanders. 



The Angmagsalik people have two kinds of harpoons, one with 

 the butt end finished in a knob of bone or narwhal tooth (figs. 103, 

 111, 112), the other having on its butt end two feathers of bear's 

 bone, either thigh-bone or shoulder-blade (figs. 104, 108, 113). The 

 throwing-stick belonging to the first- named harpoon has 2 or 3 

 eyelets, with the aid of which it is fastened on hooks of ivory on 

 the shaft. The throwing-stick of the last-named harpoon has an 

 e3^elet at the fore end , and a bcA^elled projection of bone at the 

 lower end, to which corresponds a bone bevelling at the butt end 

 of the shaft between the feathers. This arrangement seems to be 

 better than that of the West Greenlanders, where the butt end of 

 the harpoon shaft between the feathers is furnished with a little 

 cavity to receive a hook on the end of the throwing-stick. All 

 throwing-sticks have grooves for the thumb (figs. 144 to 149). 



The loose shaft of the harpoon is of narwhal tooth or bear's 

 bone , and its base has a little projection fitting into a cavity on 

 the front of the foreshaft, and is tightly hinged to the shaft by 

 -means of short elastic rawhide thongs (fig. 119). 



The toggle-head (savikatak) is made of narwhal tooth, or walrus 

 tooth; on the front is set a blade of iron, and in the rear there is 

 a cavity in which the point of the loose shaft fits. Toggle-heads of 

 older date may be made entirely of bone or tooth, or on the front 

 have blades of bone or brass (figs. 131 to 136). 



The harpoon line is cut in a spiral out of the hide of a 

 bearded seal. For smoothing and softening it the natives use pieces 

 of bone in which holes are bored (fig. 195, 196, 197). The line is 

 attached to the toggle-head in such a manner that on resistance it 

 turns crossways. The toggle is held in place on the loose shaft 

 before the throw by an eyelet on the line, which is hooked over a 



