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poon toggle hangs fast in the wound and cannot be 

 pulled out at once, to loosen the toggle or cut the flesh 

 round about it. It is further used in pushing back 

 the internal parts of the animal, e. g. the gut, before 

 the wound is closed with the wound-plug (see section 

 on these). 



Sealing floats (pp. 47 — 48). Fig. 154 shows the 

 single bladder-float (puttaqin), which the East and West 

 Greenlanders have in common, lying by the side of the 

 harpoon shaft on the kaiak deck, behind the man-hole. 

 The same type better blown up is seen lying on the 

 kaiak in figs. 87 and 101. From its place behind the man- 

 hole the float is connected with the harpoon line 

 (ca. 6 m. long) by means of a short and fairly heavy 

 thong inserted into the head end; the ends of the two 

 lines meet close in front of 

 the man-hole and are fastened 

 by a bone eye or toggle. The 

 short thong {qaarsernawiäkki- 

 taat, in West Greenland kug- 

 sugaa) is drawn through some 

 few bone beads or buttons, 

 Avhich serve to keep the thong 

 dry, lifting it a little above 

 the deck; further, they serve 

 a also as ornaments. The har- 



Fig. 151. Two poon line itself lies coiled up 



stilettos. (Holm Qn t^e kaiak stand; from 



coll.). a'ls, ЬЧб. .1 .1 .1 J ^ • 



there the other end again 



runs down upon the deck to the right of 



the kaiak stand and is fastened in the 



double-eyed bone clasp which is seen 



buttoned to a lateral peg on the harpoon 



shaft (cf. pp. 409, 413, 415). From this 



peg the line continues along the shaft up 



to the toggle head at the end of the loose 



shaft of the harpoon. — The bladder is 



held fast to the deck, the belly upwards, 



by means of two wooden plugs (paa''^ijiiaak) 



one at either side, which are pushed under a cross-strap on the kaiak 



deck. One of these plugs is seen in fig. 154, hanging by the side of 



the bladder in a strap. Another, somewhat different in type, is seen 



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Fig. 152. ЛУонпс! trimmers. 

 (Holm coll.). "s. 



