Kthnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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Furthermore, he found at Dunhohn a wooden haft of a similar type as the 

 bone-haft in fig. 228 1). The Dunhohn haft represents in reality one of the 

 main forms of the Eskimo scrapers, which is found as far west as Alaska, 

 the haft being either of wood or ivory-). 



The majority (but not all) of the types are known from Greenland. 

 Near Smith Sound in the north-western corner we still fmd the shovel- 

 formed blade in a high, downwards broadening haft of wood with two con- 

 gruent grooves for the fingers^), this type being probably the prototype of 

 the European-influenced kamiut-slick, which is used further south in the 

 Danish districts for softening the kamik-skin, whereas the prototype itself is 

 no longer known here. 



Fig. 223a from Ammassalik has a head-haft (upper end of handle) made 

 of wood, with two sockets on the under side for insertion of the two bone- 



Fig. 225. Bone haft of a woman's scraper. 

 (Petersen coll.). ^/4. 



Woman's knife. 

 (Petersen coll.). Vs. 





Fig. 226. Scraping board. (Petersen coll.). Ms 



arms and with a blade of slate; the edge is beautifully polished on both 

 sides, b has a haft of wood all in one piece and is a transitional form 

 between the low, broad and the more slender two-armed haft. The stone 

 blade, which is inserted in a longitudinal groove in the edge of the haft, has 

 a broken scraping edge, perhaps caused by use. с has a head end and arms 

 of bone or ivorj' ornamented with black dots; the edge of the blade is 

 almost quite straight, d has a very beautifully cut head-haft, on the one 

 side of which a bead has been embedded in a pit (p. 35); the arms are of bone, 

 the blade of iron, e is of wood, bone and iron, f is of the same materials. 

 g has a haft consisting of a bear's tooth; the shank of the blade is inserted 



^) Figured and mentioned in my description (1909) pp. 459 — 461; fig. 49. 



2) Boas (1907) p. 432, fig. 233. Mason (1889) PI. LXXXIII, fig. 1. Hoffmann (1897) 

 PI. 35, fig. 8. 



3) Kroeber (1899) p. 287. 



