544 



W. Thalbitzer 



Fig. 263. Drinking cups or dippers of bone. 

 (Holm and otlier colls.). Ч4. 



worn point, both of which 

 have been described befoгe^). 

 Similar implements may be 

 seen in Pfaff's coll. (Stock- 

 holm). The old women's im- 

 plements for turning the 

 meat play some part in sev- 

 eral Greenland folk-tales. In 

 the tale of the two cousins 

 the orphan boy makes an 

 arrow out of his'j grand- 

 mother's meat-turner of seal- 

 bone in order to kill his 

 enemy ; in another the father 

 of the girl shoots the danger- 

 ous eagle, which has robbed 



Fig. 264. Dipper of bone. (Holm coll.). ^Is. 



him of his daughter, with his 

 grandmother's meat-turner^). 

 — These implements are also 

 known from western regions. 

 Kumlien describes a meat 

 fork from Baffin Land: "a 

 reindeer's rib pointed at one 

 end, used to fish up the meat 

 w^ith and sometimes to con- 

 vey it to the mouth;" also 

 Boas has some figures of 

 curved forks like the Green- 

 land ones^). 



Blubber hooks for the 

 lamp are mentioned p. 535. 

 The blubber hooks and car- 

 riers from Alaska^) are used 

 for the same purposes as 

 the Greenland ones but are 

 a little more specialized. 



Dippers, ladles and 

 SPOONS (p. 39). ^- Fig. 262 is 

 a small spoon made of soapstone and used in supping preserved 



Fig. 265. Spoons of bone 



1) Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 405-4()(;, tig. 23 and pp. 4(;;{ 464, fig. 53. 



-) pp. 255 and 260 of this volume. 



3) Kumlien (1879) p. 21; Boas (1888) p. 563, tig. 517 and (1901- 1907) p. 74, fig. 100. 



*) Xel.son (1899) p. 73; Murdocli (1892) p. 310, tigs. 311-312. 



