Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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in which the broad central board was of wood, but the ring, the 

 two thin legs and the six cross-ribs were of bone. The ring was 

 passed through five longish holes, four in two pairs of 

 flat bone pegs projecting up from each end of the flat 

 horizontal board in the middle of the kaiak stand, and 

 the fifth hole in the top of the right leg. The bone-ring 

 itself was composed of three thin pieces, spliced together 

 at or nearly through the covered places. 



The kaiak stand is fixed to the deck by a wooden 

 peg or bone hook, which hangs in a short strop under 

 the middle of the stand and can thus be easily pushed 

 in under one of the cross-straps attached to the deck 

 skin under the kaiak stand. The wooden peg can be 

 seen in fig. 154. Concerning the attachment see also p. 394. 



The butt end of the shaft of the bird-dart has its 

 place on the upturned peg on the left leg of the kaiak 

 stand; this peg is formed as a bent-up continuation of 

 the foot (fig. 98) or of a piece of bone which is attached 

 to the outer side of the leg. The right leg also bears Fig. 93. 

 usually a peg or hook (for example, a bird's claw as in Snow and ice- 

 fig. 98), which is of use in holding «""^Р^^/о^' 



* ^' ^ the kaiak. 



the shaft of the bladder dart. (Holm coll). 



The harpoon line has its place on 1/5. 



the top of the kaiak stand, where it 

 is coiled up into 17 to 18 coils. Its usual length 

 is circa 6 m. 



All the three types (or tw^ main types) de- 

 scribed here are peculiar to Greenland. Outside 

 Greenland the kaiak stand is not raised on legs 

 above the deck; it must therefore be called by a 

 different name. Boas^) shows a "receptacle" for 

 the coiled harpoon-line, the bottom of which con- 

 sists of three boards. The rim, which appears to 



Fig. 94. Parts of an ' , *^ , 



old kaiak stand. (J. be of wood, is pegged and tied to the bottom. 

 Petersen coll.). Ч3. The middle board extends beyond the rim of the 



receptacle in the form of a handle. We recognize 

 here, so to speak, the archetype of the primitive, cruciform stand 

 (fig. 92b). — In Alaska we find a float-board, consisting of an oval 

 hoop of wood; "the sides have holes by which a thin board is 

 fastened to the inner side. The front of the bow is oval, and the 

 sides taper gradually to the points of two projecting arms, which 



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1) Boas (1901) pp. 11—12, flg. 2. 



