520 



W. ÏHALBITZER 



Nualik. (Amdrup coll. 



the specimens discovered will be given under 

 the figures of toys (figs. 379—381). 



Hanging hooks (p. 35; figs. 242 c, 243, 248) 

 are found in all three collections. In the first 

 two illustrations they are beautifully cut with 

 ornamental black dots on the surface, or notches 

 in the edge or base, the third only consists of a 

 roughly cut bone. 



This kind of simple and open hook as 

 well as the sticks of bone or ivory with a 

 toggling seal, bird or block-shaped piece of 

 bone in the lower end (figs. 242 a, b, 244, 249 — 

 Fig. 244. Sinew guard 251) were used for hanging up sinew thread 

 with a seal-shaped toggle. ^^^ skin-straps (rarely sewing-rings) 0. 



Needle-skins and thimble-guards (p. 35, 

 figs.247, 249, 250, 251). Instead of needle-cases 

 of bone with a narrow skin-strap, of the kind 

 known everywhere among the Eskimo (men- 

 tioned p. 514), the Ammassalikers only use 

 broad, generally richly ornamented skin-tri- 

 angles on which the needles are stuck, as seen 

 Fi<j. 245. Bone ring for the in some of the figures. The skin-triangle (mert- 

 twisting of sinew thread, ceeluwik, kakkUuwik, kakkisuwiat) is hung up 

 (Amdrup coll.). i-Qj, example on the drying frame or on the 



wall and from its lower edge — as in the skin- 

 strap of the ordinary needle-case — small cut 

 objects of bone and ivory are suspended. At 

 Ammassalik thimble -guards mostly but also 

 hooks for sinew threads and combs may be 

 observed among the objects suspended. I shall 

 show presently that at Ammassalik the needle- 

 skin is undoubtedly a specialized form of the 

 original skin-strap, that was a part of the needle- 

 case. 



The characteristic double hooks (tikkiwee) 

 on which the sewing rings are kept, are closely 

 connected with these needle-skins with which 

 they are always bound together. North of the 

 Ammassalik district near the Skærgaard Penin- 





Fig. 24ß. Sinew twister 



from Nualik. 



(Amdrup coll.). 



Ryder (1895) p. l.'ii). The liook with appurtenances 

 seen in fig. 243 (Petersen coll. 10(5 1 has belonged to 

 one of Kunnaak's wives at Ammassalik. 



