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piece of wood and then into sea-weed, because she wears amulets consisting 

 of this material; in this way she disappears from her pursuers ^). 



Amulet made of discoid 

 stones tied together Avith 

 a skin strap. (Holm and 



13. 



Uppermost in fig. 

 350 are shown two ob- 

 jects presumably amul- 

 ets carved in wood; a 

 is a block with six faces 

 representing innertiwin, 

 'the fire people' from 

 the beach among whom later colls.) 



the angakoq often chooses his auxiliary spirits^); 

 Ь is a small, flat board with two thin wings at 

 the ends, which looks as if it were intended 

 to be inserted and fixed into a permanent bed ; 

 it has probably had its place inside a kaiak as 

 amulet; the three figures carved on the front are 

 almost certainly meant to represent tornarssuks. 



Fig. 350 c — f are discarded implements 

 which have been used as amulets; с is a frag- 

 ment of a cross-piece (nootaakitaa, cfr. p. 386) 

 used to secure the end of the kaiak-paddle on 

 the deck, when the man lets go the paddle, 

 and is the same kind of implement as is seen 

 in seen in fig. 353; note the ornamentation. 

 Fig. d is possibly a smaller specimen of the 

 same implement, shaped like a seal at both 

 ends; e is probably a fragment of a wound- 

 plug (cf. p. 458), / a drum-stick. The two parts 

 of a kaiak-stand illustrated in fig. 94 (pp. 388— 

 389) have also been used as amulets. They 

 belong to the same class as all these discarded 

 implements used as amulets. 



Fig. 351 a is the head and claw of a raven 

 bound together by a black skin-strap, b is the 

 fore-paw of a seal, с a group of different things, 

 namely, an old half-broken thimble-guard, bird's 

 feathers etc., wrapped in a piece of cloth which 

 has probably belonged to some head-kerchief. 



Fig. 352 shows two similar, disc-shaped stones with convex sides, 

 resembling folded up shells (fossils of tw^o shell fish?) bound together 



i 



a b 



Fig. 353. 



Old appurtenances of 



kaiaks used as amulets 



(Petersen coll.). ^/3. 



1) Tale no. 2 Imerasugsuk p. 236. 



^) The same object is seen in the illustration on p. 45. 



