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is boiled. Large quantities are dried as a store for the winter ^). — Within 

 quite recent years the dip-net fishing in West Greenland has been described 

 by Daniel Bruun ^). 



Nets for catching birds (especially the little auk) are described from 

 Cape York by Mylius Erichsen''). They are unknown at Ammassalik. 



Fig. 176. Decoy whistle for 

 ptarmigan. (Thalbitzer coll.). Мз. 



A GULL SNARE (jükkät, cf. pp. 56 and 407) is shown in fig. 175a. 

 When it is rightly fitted up, all the thin ends of the loops {napi- 

 seetin) are drawn right in to the wooden shaft, so that the loop 

 surrounds the greatest possible space. 

 A piece of blubber is weighted fast 

 under the stone. Another very small 

 piece of blubber is stuck into the hole 

 at the other end of the wooden stick. 

 The gull first of all is allured by the 

 smaller piece, but when it has draw^n quite near it discovers the 

 larger piece at the bottom and slips its head through one of the 

 loops. Another contrivance is seen in fig. 175 b. A bone spigot 

 (12— 14 cm. long), pointed at both ends, is fixed in a very long line, 

 and is covered by a piece of blubber as bait. When the gull swal- 

 lows the blubber, which floats on the water, it takes in the spigot 



also, but this sticks crosswise in the neck 

 and the gull is caught. The line is kept 

 floating on the water by means of small 

 wooden floats. Amdrup found such a float 

 at the "dead house" (fig. 178). 



Fabricius^) mentions these snares for 

 West Greenland, making them special for 

 the capture of certain birds (the first-named 

 mostly for the kittiwake and tern, the latter 

 for the large gulls). Further, he m.entions 

 Fig. 177. Sinkers for fishing, several Other traps or snares for the capture 



Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). r- .i i • j j .i ui 



of other birds, and these are presumably 

 also known to some extent in East Greenland. The following may 

 serve as an example. 



Ptarmigan are taken at Ammassalik in the same manner, by 

 means of a snare fastened to the end of a long pole (8 to 9 m. long). 

 The long line loosens from the thin end of the pole as soon as the 

 loop has got hold of the neck of the bird. 



1) Rink (1857) pp. 226—228. 



-) D. Bruun (1906) p. 66. 



3) Mylius Erichsen, Grønland (1906) pp. 306 and 325. 



*) Fabricius Г1812) pp. 249—253, cf. 239—242. 



