516 



W. Thalbitzer 



foot turned downwards (represented in PfafT's collection from West 

 Greenland both in bone and stone) has not been found in East 

 Greenland. 



The kammiut-siick (from the verb kammiorpaa 'to work the 

 boot-skin with a scraper to make it soft') is mostly known from 

 West Greenland; it consists of a wooden stick with a straight scrap- 

 ing edge of bone or metal and is used for the daily softening of 

 the skin in foot and sole when the wet boot has been dried. I do 

 not remember having seen this implement in East Greenland, but 

 on the other hand Johan Petersen told me later that the East Green- 

 landers call this implement teeseet, so I conclude that it is also 

 known there. This name possibly corresponds to tigussaut in West 



Greenland (cf. p. 500). The long slender form 

 known from West Greenland I consider as a var- 

 iety, caused by European influence, of the origin- 

 ally shorter scraper either made of bone all in 

 one piece or of stone inserted in a bone haft; the 

 working edge of the implement was of nearly the 

 same form (p. 509)^). 



Twisting and plaiting implements (pp. 35, 



506). — Though I have hardly any information 



regarding the use of these implements, I shall 



venture to express my opinion thereon. Manee- 



Piece of hoop iron kuttaq was the name of a hunter at Ammassalik 



to be used as ma- with whom I looked over the ethnographic figures 



on the plates in Holm's book on his countrymen, 

 in order to get his names for the objects. It is 

 mainly these names, supplemented and confirmed 

 by several other natives from the same place, which 

 are given for the different objects in this description. When we 

 came to the two oblong boards with regularly made holes and inci- 

 sions in the edge as seen in fig. 241, the hunter gave a special name 

 to each of them^). The one to the left he called a qV^ttarpia per- 

 taa^win, the twister used by sinew-plaiters, the other to the right 

 was on the other hand an atcinaatät panerseetaa, a drying imple- 

 ment for the skin straps. The cause of his determination is not 

 uninteresting, as it seems that he considered it a necessary charact- 



Fig. 238. 



terial for needles, 



and bone piece to 



be used as holder. 



Nualik. 



(Amdrup coll.). 



') Cf. the types of this implement known from Smith Sound and Baffin Land. 



Boas (1888J pp. 519-523, figs. 465—468, (1901) pp. 91 92, figs. 132 — 134. Kroeber 



(1899) p. 287, fig. 29. Steensby (1910) pp. 336—337. 

 -j In Holm's work (1888) PI. XIX the two |>icces are placed separateh' on each 



side of the plate without being connected with the bone-fork at the Jjase. 



