Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



415. 



Shafts of harpoons and lances 

 ркол! NuALiK. (Amdrup coll.). 



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Fig. 112 shows two knob har- 

 poon shafts from the house at 

 Nualik, respectively 177 cm. and 

 190 cm. in length (including the 

 bone linobs, which are 125 cm. in 

 both). The shaft is almost rect- 

 angular in front (uppermost), circ- 

 ular lower down like the shaft of 

 the feather harpoon, but flatter at 

 the middle over the part which 

 lies against the throwing stick, 

 and here we find the bone pegs 

 for the latter (so far as they have 

 not fallen out). The peg which is 

 found uppermost on the side of 

 the shaft, is used for fastening the 

 harpoon line on the shaft, after 

 the toggle head is fixed on the 

 loose shaft. The lowermost peg, a 

 little broader and flatter, corres- 

 ponds to the hole farthest back 

 in the throwing stick. In the butt 

 end (lowermost) the shaft is again 

 circular, not flat like the feather 

 harpoon. The bone knob is cir- 

 cular in section and consists of the 

 thick main body, which increases 

 in thickness doM^wards — the 

 end of the wooden shaft is in- 

 serted into the deep, uppermost 

 socket — and the diminutive seal- 

 bod}' peg on the basal surface, 

 which ends below in the seal-tail 

 ornament. 



Fig. 113 is a shaft of a feather 

 harpoon from the same place, 

 154 cm. in length (including the 

 feathers which areSOcm.in length). 

 In front (uppermost) the wooden 

 shaft is rectangular in section and 

 in the end-surface there is a square 

 prominence or ridge intended for 

 the mortising of the bone foreshaft 

 (wanting). Further down the shaft 

 becomes thinner and at the same 

 time oval or circular in section. 

 Here there is a bone peg on the 

 side of the shaft, placed almost at Knob harpoon 

 right angles to the plane of the shafts. Ц12. 

 feathers; it has been used for 



fastening the harpoon line to the shaft (by means of the bone clasp attached 

 to the line). A little further down, on the underside of the shaft and in a plane 

 at right angles to the previous peg, there are two other bone pegs close 

 together; these are intended to fix the front part of the throwing stick. From 



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Fig. 112. 



Fig. 113. 

 Feather har- 

 poon shaft. 7i2. 



Fig. 114. 

 Lance shafts. 



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