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his wife and child sit by his side. The length of the carving is 15,6 cm. Fig. 61 shows another product of Aua's artistic propensities: A dog's head carved in soapstone, 3.7 cm long.

Aua's elder brother, Ututsiaq, at Ponds Inlet, was also rather good at carving in ivory; but among the younger men this art is in a state of rapid decline. Parry,[1] too, writes that in spite of their many good knives, the work they did with them was "remarkably coarse and clumsy".

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Fig. 62.Bow drill. 1 : 3.
The Bow-drill and Drilling.

The bow-drill is still an important tool and will certainly always hold its own. Even where there is access to European tools the Eskimos as a rule prefer their own bow-drill for drilling holes in ivory and antler; they do not use hand-drills.

Fig. 62 a and c (Iglulik) is a bow-drill, consisting of the bow (nîortût), the drill (kaivut) with the bit (errotikuluk) and the mouth

  1. ↑ 1824, p. 536.
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