Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 511 



of perforations, as seen in the figure, probably for the attachment of a blade 

 of another material. It is only mere conjecture when I refer it to the ulo 

 hafts, where it mostly resembles the type b of fig. 227 and Amdrup's spec- 

 imen from Dunholm; it has something of the same curved shape as the 

 following specimen. Fig. 229 is a concavo-convex haft of wood with a sharp- 

 edged bone-blade fastened by two wooden nails in a groove of the narrow 

 basal end; the blade itself has the same concave shape as the haft and 

 resembles the characteristic stone-scrapers mentioned on p. 497 (cf. p. 507). 

 It is a scraper type of extreme interest. Note the straight edge of the blade, 

 in contrast to the curved edges of the others. 



At Ammassalik I obtained the names of two sorts of women's 

 knives; the one with a simple haft and crescent-shaped blade was 

 called cakké (or sakke) and corresponds to the West Greenland ulo, 

 a name that is not used at Ammassalik but is the common Eskimo 

 name for this implement as far as south-western Alaska^), cakke 

 is the same word as sakko in West Greenland (see pp. 433 and 505) 

 but the meaning is different. The latter w^rd undoubtedly is related 

 to Parry's seak-koot [ciâkkuf] from Iglulik^). The tw^-armed 'knife' 

 with slightly curved or quite straight cutting edge was called pilättee- 

 tumeer at Ammassalik, which means a blade stuck in the haft of a 

 pilätteen 'saw or instrument used for cutting up (body or skin) by 

 repeated cuts.' This also proves, that the two types are funda- 

 mentally different although some of the characteristics may have 

 been mixed in the present forms; the first may probably be traced 

 back to the convex-edged stone-knife mentioned on p. 497 (fig. 205 c) 

 the last to a scraper (of bone or stone) ^) with an approximately 

 straight edge. In his often mentioned paper Solberg has started 

 investigations on this point, but the question is not yet quite cleared 

 up. Possibly the same forms of implements have not had the 

 same names at the different places and have become mixed, e. g. in 

 East Greenland. The two-armed haft-type has not been found out- 

 side Greenland; it is characteristic of the Greenland woman's knife. 

 On the other hand, we find in the west one or two types unknown 

 in Greenland*). 



Scraping board (qeerpik, fig. 226, cf. p. 504). The figure show-s 

 a very beautiful specimen which was found in a grave near Täsee- 

 saarsik. It has the shape of a whale (?). Note the ornamental lines 

 on the tail. Traces of wear on the upper side. 



1) Barnum (1901) p. 316. 



-) Parry (1824) p. 566, cf. 538; "rubbing the skin hard for several hours with a 

 blunt scraper, called siukoot, so as nearly to dry it." 



3) A scraper of bone Avith straight edge has been figured by Holm (1888) PI. XIX, 

 fig. с 



4) See e. g. Nelson (1899) PI. XLVII and XLIX, figs. 1-20. Murdoch (1292) pp. 294— 

 298, figs. 289-299. 



