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(Repulse Bay) shows one of these, 18 cm long; one from Ponds Inlet, 14 cm long, of the same bone, is thin and slightly widened at both ends to a spoon-like, slightly hollowed-out bowl. Broader bone spoons are sometimes used for picking out the brains from caribou heads. Parry[1] figures a bundle of marrow extractors of better manufacture, tied to a needle case, and the marrow extractors which

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Fig. 97.Smaller meat knives.
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Fig. 98.Marrow extractor.
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Fig. 99.Sucking tube.

Boas[2] figures from the west coast of Hudson Bay also show more careful workmanship, being ensiform with dot-and-circle ornamentation and a hole in the rear end.

The sucking tube (tordloaq) is used for sucking up liquids which are difficult to drink, when for example they are full of pieces of ice, etc; when caribou-hunting they are also used for drinking water from flat, ice-covered pools, etc. Fig. 99 (Iglulik) is a sucking-tube of a caribou leg-bone with the ends cut off; 19 cm long. Two others, from Iglulingmiut, Qajûvfik, are of the same bone, 16 and 18 cm long.

An indispensable household utensil is the snow beater (anautaq), with which clothing must be beaten as soon as one comes inside the

  1. ↑ 1824, fig. p. 550. 5.
  2. ↑ 1901 fig. 148.
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