Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 749 



Inventoriai Nos. 



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476 (99) Cross-piece (bow) for a drill 



477 — 479 (96) Moutli-pieces (bone caps) for drills. 3 pieces . . 



480 — 481 (87) Borers (wood and iron) for making holes in iron. 



Two specimens. Fig. 202 484 



482 (88) Tool for hammering holes in iron. The wooden 

 handle is grasped with the hand, the butt end held 

 against the iron piece and the upper end is ham.- 

 mered on. Fig. 200 484 



483 — 485 (90, 97) Borers for making needle eyes. Three 



specimens. Fig. 235 512 



486 (92) Piece of hoop iron mounted in bone. So mounted 



to make it easier to chip out pieces for sewing 

 needles. Fig. 238 516 



487 (59) Implement for softening rawhide thongs (the 



skin of bearded seal is laid in the urine tub, there- 

 after cut into a long strip and dried, afterwards 

 this apparatus is used for softening and smoothing 

 the thong). Fig. 196 482 



488 (68) Skin scraper made of wood with bone blade 



inserted. Fig. 229 510 



489—492 (84, 85) Women's knives. Five. Fig. 227a 510 



493 (85) Woman's knife. Pieces of the edge has been 



chipped off probably for the use of making needles 



of them. Fig. 227b ■ 510 



494 (154) Two legs of a woman's knife 



495 — 498 (45) Bodkins of narwhal tusk for use of women's 



work. Four specimens. Fig. 237 515 



499 — 510 (51) Thimble guards of bear's bone (for hanging 



thimbles and sinew thread on). Twelve. Fig. 247 521 



511 (54) Sinew guard of bear's bone. Fig. 244 520 



512 (52) Ring of narwhal t\isk used in plaiting sinew 



threads. Fig. 245 520 



513 — 514 (53) Seal-shaped sinew twister's made of bear's bone 

 and wood and used in plaiting sinew threads. Two. 

 Fig. 246 520 



515 (122) Fire-ldndling apparatus '. . . 



516 (73) Drying hatch for harpoon line. The end of the 



Hue is stuck through the hole in the hatch end 

 and drawn over to the smallest hole; it is rolled in 

 bights lengthwise around the frame; the hatch is hung 

 under the large drying hatch for clothes. Fig. 259 534 



517 (116) Hook of bone for hanging up thongs or other 



household objects. Fig. 248 521 



518—522 (28, 29, 30, 46, 98) Meat and blubber forks of walrus 

 or narwhal tusk or bear's bone (are used to carry 

 a piece of blubber when they go inland to gather 



black crowberries). Five. Fig. 261, 266 542, 545 



523 — 525 (155) Forks of bone. Three specimens, one of them 



probably an ammassät needle. Fig. 234b 512 



526 (70) Scoop of wood for pouring water 



527 (110) Drinking cup and scoop of a child. The handle 



is broken, the bottom missing. Fig. 267 545 



