54 G. Holm. 



the outer prongs are flat at the tips, so that they can be thrusted against 

 the stones in the river ^) (fig. 140). They are also caught through 

 holes in the ice with the aid of long fork-shaped harpoons with 

 hinged toggle-heads, which turn at right angles in the fish^) (figs. 

 138, 139 a). A piece of potstone on which are fixed carved pieces 

 of bone attached to split feather quills is moved up and down in 

 the water as a bait (fig. 172). Sometimes also salmon are caught 

 by means of a stone weir, which becomes dry at low water, and 

 is erected just outside the mouth of a river. 



Sea-scorpions are stuck with a fish-spear which ends in three 

 barbed points (fig. 140). 



Angmagsat (caplins) are caught in spring in the last half of the 

 month of May and in June at Kingak in the Angmagsalik fjord. 

 All the inhabitants of the district assemble there, and the tents lie 

 dotted over the hilly countrj^ which is still covered with deep snow. 



Angmagsat are scooped up out of the water from the umiaks 

 with large cylindrical scoops, a little over 1 foot in diameter and 

 height and fixed to a handle about 15 ft. long. The scoop is made 

 of two wooden rings, which are connected with about 12 thin cross- 

 bars. Between the latter are placed slender rawhide-thongs, the 

 bottom too being formed of a network of the same material (fig. 37). 

 The angmagsat are also stuck from the kaiak with spears, the head 

 of which is made of diverging thin wooden sticks lying close together. 

 Every spot on the rocks or the grass is used for drying the fish on 

 (fig. 222). A hole is pierced in the angmagsat with a bone needle 

 (fig. 234), whereupon they are strung up on rawhide cords and 

 rolled up in large bundles to be preserved as provisions for the winter. 



They treat in the same way, though indeed onlj" for sport, 

 some very small fish, called iterdlarnat^). 



The roe of the angmagsat, like other fish roe which is collected 

 among sea-weed, is regarded as a delicacy. 



The angmagsat generally appear just before the winter ice has 

 broken up in the middle part of the fjord, the other parts of it being 

 already free of ice. As all the people winter further out on the 

 fjord, they travel up to the place first by umiak, then by sled and 

 then by umiak again, as has already been mentioned (pag. 45). 



^) Salmon spears of quite tlie same form are found among the Alaska Eskimo and 



the Central Eskimo. 

 ^) Fork-shaped salmon harpoons are also found in the Washington Territory 



(Smithsonian Re])ort 1886^ part I, p. 271), as well as among the Yurok and 



Wintun tribes in California (Contribution to North American Ethnolog}-, л'о1. Ill, 



pp. 49 and 234 . 

 ^j Determined by Ad. S. .lensen as fry of the sea-perch (Sebastes marinus) (Medd. 



ОШ Grønl. XXIX, p. 225]. 



