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slender point and two pierced holes at right-angles to each other; 9.0 cm long.
Two harpoon heads of ivory, both from Iglulik, illustrate the two now common types: the seal-harpoon head, flat with two barbs, two dorsal spurs, and the walrus-harpoon head. thin, with the blade at right-angles to the line hole, no barbs; 35 and 2.8 cm long respectively.
From Iglulik there is a bow with four arrows. The bow is made of two pieces of antler nailed together with iron nails; it is 53 cm. long, about 2 cm wide; the string, of twine, is fastened at one end to a knob, at the other end in a hole. The arrows have wooden shafts with nocks (one of them is strengthened here with sinew-thread binding) and iron heads, three of them blunt, the fourth hammered out to an only slightly sharp blade, inserted in the fore end of the shaft which is lapped with sinew-thread: lengths 24 to 32 cm. Another toy. bow from Iglulik is of one piece of antler, 28½ cm long. 1.3 cm wide, string of sinew-thread, held by two knobs at the ends, an arrow with wooden shaft and a blunt iron head, 23 cm long.
A salmon spear from the Aivilingmiut has a thin wooden shaft and a centre prong of iron, side prongs of musk-ox horn and barbs of iron; lashing of sinew-thread; 61 cm long, of which the side prongs measure 11 cm.
A sledge (Iglulik) is of wood. with runners 16½ cm long and 2½ cm wide, upturned at the nose; six cross-slats about 8 cm long; double lashings of sinew-thread. The draught line, of sealskin, is fastened on by knots in holes in the runners and ends in a loop and a bone toggle; it extends 10 cm beyond the nose of the runners. Four trace buckles with traces and harness, 50–74 cm long. A small toy sledge from Ponds Inlet is of wood, 6.0 × 1.8 cm; the nose is slightly upturned: the cross-slats are not indicated, but the runners are cut out on the under side.
Fig. 164 (Aivilingmiut, Southampton Island) is a kayak with a man in it, carved in ivory. The kayak is rather broad with the ends slightly turned up; it has four deck-straps; paddle and harpoon are pushed in under the two foremost straps. The man has a face and arms to the front; the dress is not indicated. 17.5 cm long.
An ulo (Chesterfield Inlet) has a blade of red slate, handle and tang of ivory; the blade is held on by two pins, likewise of ivory; length of blade 3.5 cm; total width 3.3 cm.
Fig. 165b (Ponds Inlet) is a lamp of soapstone of the usual form. 13.8 cm long. A number of other toy lamps have lengths varying from 17.2 to 4.1 cm: four of them have a longitudinal partition