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very finely worked wooden hafts (drills?) in fig. 190, which were 

 likewise brought home by Holm from Ammassalik, have regular ring 

 grooves either for ornament or as bed for the drill line. The one 

 has a thin cylindrical iron point, the other a heavier point, square in 

 section (cf. fig. 202), wàth blunt end. The form of the shafts of 

 these sticks is extremely rare even at Ammassalik, but incisions 

 carved in the shaft to keep the string in position are known] from 

 other Eskimo regions (Baffin Land and Alaska)^). — At the "dead 

 house" Amdrup found a bow-drill of wood 18'5 cm. long with a 

 bone knob at each end, the one knob with a longitudinal hole, the 

 other with a transverse hole, to fix the ends of the drill string. 

 Further, he found various pieces of finely smoothed wooden sticks, 



used for drilling, with 

 iron points and with 

 or without ferrules of 

 bone round the sockets 

 or slits, where the 

 points are inserted. 

 — At the mouth of 

 Scoresby Sound Am- 

 drup found a whole 

 set of drilling tools: 

 a fine bow of white 

 bone or ivory (length 

 47 cm.), a wooden stick 

 with iron point and 

 three knuckle-bones 

 for mouth-pieces^). 

 For each bow-drill 

 and stick there is a mouth-piece of bone, the knuckle-bone of a seal 

 or other animal (fig. 191 b), or an imitation in wood of this (fig. 191a). 

 As a rule these parts have a hole through the one corner for a 

 looped line to hang them up. 



The usual method of using the drill (putoorutin, ammarteen) is 

 to pass the string (nimaa^'taa) once round the stick, place the 

 upper end of the latter into a hollow in the under side of the 

 knuckle-bone (kimmia), whilst the other side of the bone is held 

 fast between the teeth of the workman. By pulling on the bow 

 (aa'^lattisaa) in the horizontal plane to the left and to the right, 

 with one hand on each end, the stick is made to rotate backwards 

 and forwards in the hole (puto) to be bored; see fig. 70. 



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Fig. 192. Finger protectors made of skin. (Holm coll.). ^b 



Ï) Boas a901) p. 28; see figs. ;Ш and ;}7b, с Murdoch (1892) fig. 159. 

 -) Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 452—454, fig. 47. 



