Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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by Graah on Ole Rømers Island (see under saws p. 477) — but it is 

 probable, that similar instruments of bone or stone have been used 

 earlier and will be found in the arcliæological material, by analogy 

 with what we know from Alaska^). Holm refers to wooden wedges 

 among the Ammassalikers (in this volume p. 41) used for splitting 

 bone by means of a series of drilled holes. 



The bow-drills (pp. 40—41) are almost the same everywhere 

 among the Eskimo, both in the bow and the stick. Fig. 191 shows 

 different bows {d, e, f) partly of bone, partly wood; d is ornam- 





d e f g 



Fig. 19L Drilling apparatus, a, Ъ mouth-pieces. '/4. с drill stick 

 and drill bow. ^/s. e, f drill bows. Y*- Я drill stick with bone 



point. 1/3. (Holm coll.). 



ented with inlaid pieces of bone. In most of the borers found in 

 Greenland there are iron points, wedged into the tip of the handle, 

 which is cleft to receive the point and kept from splitting by a 

 whipping of sinews. Fig. 191^ shows a drill stick with bone point 

 fixed in a wooden haft. The bone piece is cylindrical, but ends 

 below in a flat, head-like expansion. Drills with bone point are also 

 known from Alaska^), с is a drill with iron point; the shaft is pro- 

 vided with a bone cap above and a bone ferrule below. The two, 



1) Nelson (1899) fig. 26 and PI. XXXIX. Murdoch (1892) p. 288 (flint flakers). 

 -) Murdoch (1892) p. 179, fig. 157. 



