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tic, and is present on all the other adzes in the collection, in contrast to those of the Thule culture.

An adze from the Aivilingmiut has a shaft of whale bone, 29 cm long, and one from Ponds Inlet a wooden shaft 21 cm long, 7½ cm wide at the top; both have long mortice chisels as blades. An adze from Iglulik has a mortice chisel only 9 cm long, and a 19 cm handle of antler; a similar specimen from the west coast of Hudson Bay is Image missingFig. 63.Adze. 1 : 3. Image missingFig. 64.Implement for hollowing, out. figured by Boas.^[1] Parry^[2] figures an adze with an iron blade and a number of notches in the handle for the fingers; a similar handle is in the Anangiarssuk find.^[3] Now most of the Iglulik Eskimos have European axes which are used for chopping frozen dog-feed, for woodworking, etc.

For whetting knives and other edges they use stones of slate or sandstone, mostly prismatic in shape. A whetting stone of black slate from Iglulik is prismatic, 9.3 × 3.6 × 2.1 cm, smoothed on three longitudinal sides; one of red sandstone, likewise from Iglulik, is prismatic, 4.9 × 1.9 × 0.7 cm, ground on all six sides; a slender stick of slate from Qajûvfik, 13.0 cm long. 1.6 cm wide, is ground on all four longitudinal sides.

From Iglulik we have a musk-ox tooth with a pierced hole for suspension; 5.0 × 3.0 cm; these were often used in former days for whetting knives.

Many Eskimos now have whetting steels of European make.

For polishing iron blades undigested milk from the stomach of walrus cubs, found in cheese-like lumps, is often used.

Soapstone is sawn and hewn out with saw and adze and thereafter worked with knife and file. Fig. 64 (Lyon Inlet) is an implement for