532 



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moss the lamp-wick was lighted, after first being moistened with 



train-oil. 



Regarding the Boothia Eskimo (Igluhk etc.), Parry does not speak of 

 fire-making by drilhng but only of the use of two lumps of common iron 

 pyrites from which sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing 

 moss well dried, and sometimes made more inflammable by admixture of 

 the seed of the ground willow. Otherwise the lighting up with the lamp- 

 moss is as in Greenland \). 



Technical names: innerit 'the fires (pyrites?),' the whole kindling 



apparatus, especially the flat piece of wood with the holes in which 



the sparks arise; kootcukjootaa or neeutaa the drill-stick; naqit^^'aa, 



'the presser,' the cross-bar supporting the top of the drill-stick; 



Fig. 257. Cooking pot of soapstone. (Holm coll.). ^/s. 



kik"'kortaa, the bone-knob on the cross-bar; nimaa^^taa, the string 

 by means of which the drill-stick is moved; arcaara, the handle of 

 the string; neuttut, the drillers who make the fire; kaporniagassaqa- 

 qaa'"tit 'you are about to catch fire.' 



Lamps with appurtenances (p. 38). — At Ammassalik the most 

 common shape of the soapstone-lamp is a bowl in the shape of a 

 semicircle or a segment of one; sometimes the curved line is broken 

 so that the shape of the lamp approaches that of a triangle (fig. 258 b). 

 But these lamp-forms have always a straight side with a low side 

 wall, while the round or broken wall is high and sometimes slants 

 outward. Along the straight side facing the platform the wick-moss 

 (p. 527) is leant against the low wall at the shallowest place in 

 the lake of train-oil, constantly melting from the small pieces of 

 blubber further back on the deep side. A more oval-shaped lamp 



') Parry (1824) p. 504. 



