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W. Thalbitzer 



Fig. 92 a. 



Fig. 92 b. 



Fig. 92 с. 



Tliiee kaiak stands, or receptacles for tlie liarpoon 

 line. (Holm coll.). About '/s. 



Fig. 94 shows two old 

 pieces of a kaiak stand, 

 which were found by J. 

 Petersen in an old man's 

 kaiak and kept as charms 

 or amulets to enable him 

 'to reach a good old age'. 

 It appears from the frag- 

 ment fig. 98 b, that the ring 

 (hoop) on the top of the 

 kaiak stand has some- 

 times been passed through 

 a groove in the upper edge 

 instead of through an ob- 

 long hole in the topmost 

 part of the leg or the pegs 

 on it. 



Glahn mentions in his 

 "Anmærkninger" (1771)^), 

 that "the kaiak stand in 

 (West) Greenland is made 

 of bone and consists of 

 a round ring with some 

 small cross-pieces or cross- 

 trees of bone, sometimes 

 of skin. This is the sim- 

 plest manner. It is also 

 made of wood, but much 

 more artistically and some- 

 times inlaid beautifully 

 with ivory". Judging from 

 the names he is inclined 

 to believe, that the bone 

 kaiak stands were the old- 

 est and that the wooden 

 ones were only invented 

 later. 



The Ammasalikers oft- 

 en have the kaiak stand 

 entirely of wood, but the 

 bone ones are also well- 

 known. I have seen one. 



') Glalm (1771) pp. 2;{3— 234. 



