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each other, and through these and two holes in the wooden shaft runs a seal-thong in a similar manner to that figured by Boas 1888, fig. 420, from Cumberland Gulf. In one edge of the shaft, 53 cm from the fore end, is a tikâgut of ivory, and, 12 cm further down, a small copper peg in one side of the shaft for the line tension-piece. On another harpoon, also from Ponds Inlet, the shaft (with socket piece) is 1.80 m long, the foreshaft 35 cm.

The line (2) is of thick seal-thong, 9 cm long, about 1 cm wide; at one end is the harpoon head, fastened in a loop 35 cm long. The head Image missingFig. 22.Mouth piece and cross piece for bladder. Image missingFig. 23.Swivel for harpoon-line. 2 : 3. is of antler, very flat, with almost parallel sides and two dorsal spurs, each divided by four or five small notches; an iron blade in prolongation of the bone head; 85 cm from the fore end of the line is a loop of seal thong, 13 cm long, which is secured to the tension piece, a narrow, flat piece of ivory, 7½ cm long, with five holes in a row. The other end of the line has a running noose for holding the handle of the bladder.

The bladder (3) consists of a seal skin taken off whole, unhaired except on the fore flippers which have been retained with claws. The rear end is closed, the skin being tied tightly round a cross piece over which the noose of the line can be passed. The fore end is fitted with a mouth-piece of bone, closed by means of a wooden plug. The length of the bladder is about 1 m.

Fig. 10.1 (Ponds Inlet) is a large, modern narwhal harpoon head. 2 (Ponds Inlet) is a similar one, smaller, of antler, 6 is an old specimen found in the ground, from Pingerqalik, which has presumably been used for the same purpose. 5 is a modern narwhal and white-whale harpoon head from the Aivilingmiut. These harpoon heads have to be fairly large in order not to be torn out of the comparatively soft and not very tough skin of these animals.

Fig. 22.1 (Pingerqalik) is a loose mouth-piece of ivory with the wooden plug in it. Others are only 4 cm long. Fig. 22.2 (Iglulik) is a cross-piece of wood, used as a holder on a bladder. In the Anangiarssuk find^[1] there is a holder of this kind, of ivory, a socket-piece and a tikâgut for a kayak harpoon and another form of tension piece.