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little peg of ivory on the shaft near the foremost hook for the 

 throwing-stick. At the end of the harpoon line there is a swivel 

 or toggle, which is fastened by a piece of line to the float (fig. 154). 



The float is made either of two small entire hides of young 

 ringed seals, coupled together (fig. 161), or of a single skin like that 

 used by the West Greenlanders (fig. 154). The hides are tanned 

 with the hair removed, and are joined together at the head, fore- 

 flippers and hind-flippers and made quite air-tight, and are then 

 inflated through a nozzle or mouth-piece in the place of one of 

 the fore-flippers. The advantage of the float made of two sealskins 

 is that the hunter, when endeavouring from his kaiak to get the 

 dead seal to float by inflating the seal, can steady himself on the 

 float without causing it to turn over, which is not possible with a 

 single large float. 



The harpoon-line is about 45 feet long, and is coiled on the 

 kaiak stand (line board), which is a kind of trestle either (1) in the 

 form of a cross on which pegs of tooth prevent the line slipping 

 off, or (2) furnished with a ring of bone or wood, as those used by 

 the West Greenlanders (figs. 92, 154). In order to prevent the line 

 falling out of the kaiak stand, when not in use, it is held fast by 

 a strap. 



The lance is larger and thicker than that of the West Green- 

 landers (figs. 106, 114, 120). The shaft is made of wood. The head 

 consists of an iron blade set in a shank of ivor}^ bone, or iron, 

 which is fixed in a block of bone. This block is hinged to 

 the shaft by means of a long line of rawhide. This assembling line 

 is much longer than those used by the West Greenlanders. When 

 the lance is thrown with the throwing-stick, the latter is attached 

 in the same manner as on the harpoon with an ivory knob on the 

 butt end. The lance is often, especially in hunting from sleds, 

 arranged so as to be thrown without the aid of a throwing-stick, 

 and is then provided with hand rests. 



The bird-dart (figs. 122, 137) has a long barbed point of bone or 

 iron, inserted in the end of the wooden shaft. The three points on 

 the shaft are made of bear bone and barbed along the inner edges. 

 The bird-dart is cast with a throwing-stick at the lower end of 

 which is placed an ivory hook, fitting into a cavity in a little ivory 

 knob on the butt end of the dart. 



Among other implements belonging to the kaiak, may be 

 mentioned the following: 



A wooden stick with tooth mounting, with which wounded 

 narwhals are killed. It is intended to be stuck through the wound 

 into the animal's heart (fig. 151 a). 



