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3½ cm wide, is split into two thongs at each end, and these are sewn on to the rim at a distance of 6 cm apart. At one time cylindrical vessels of seal skin were used as urine containers (qorbik); nowadays an empty meat can usually serves.

Knives (pilaut) are now usually the steel snow knife or European table and pocket knives. There still remain many flensing knives of a certain type, however, which they make themselves, a type which is represented by fig. 96 (Ingnertoq). It is a large, broad-bladed, two-edged knife, 45 cm long, of which the iron blade measures 26. The handle, which is of wood, with an iron reinforcement at the fore end, is so long that it can be gripped with both hands; sometimes these are also used as snow knives. Four other knives, all from Iglulik, are of the same form:

They all widen out at the handle end and there are projections at the sides of the handles, mostly near its fore end, however. A two-edged meat knife from Iglulik has a flat handle of antler. 3.7 cm wide at the rear end, widening out at the other end to 4.2 cm; in a slot in this the symmetrical iron blade. 4.8 cm wide at the base, is fastened with two iron nails; length 26 cm, of which the blade measures 12. A small two-edged meat knife from Iglulik of the same form and material as fig. 96, but only 19½ cm long, 2.3 cm wide, has a sheath of unhaired sealskin, 8 cm long.

Fig. 97 a (Aivilingmiut, Repulse Bay) is a smaller, single edged meat knife with wooden handle, two iron reinforcements which hold the blade, and a suspension hole; it is 19 cm long, the blade being 8½ cm. A knife from the Aivilingmiut differs in size, it being 30 cm long, of which the blade accounts for 12. The handle is of antler. has a notch at the middle and a suspension hole at the butt end. The blade has one edge and is fastened at the base by two reinforcements. let into a socket in the fore end of the handle.

Fig. 97 b (found at Iglulik) is a small, old, single-edged knife. with a thin handle of antler and a narrow iron blade, formed of two pieces rivetted together; apparently it dates from the time before iron became common; its length is 14 cm.

For picking the marrow out of caribou bones they use marrow extractors (saudlûn) usually made of a caribou leg-bone. Fig. 98