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Image missingFig. 38.Fishing gear. the freshwater lakes. The implements used are: the salmon spear (kakivaq). Fig. 36 is a salmon spear from Ponds Inlet. The shaft is of two pieces scarfed together and is widened out at the fore end, in which the middle prong is inserted in a groove in the middle of one side and held in by lashings of sinew-thread and two wire windings. The side prongs are of antler and are fastened by three cross-lashings of sinew-cord and two iron nails. The barbs are of iron, inserted in the side prongs; one of them has a reinforcing lashing of sinew-thread. Total length 2.29 m.

Fig. 37 (Itibdjeriang) is the fore end of a salmon spear with side prongs of musk ox horn, a material that is both stronger and more elastic than antler; the length of the side prongs is 30 cm.

A third salmon spear from Repulse Bay with side prongs of musk ox horn is 2.79 m long.^[1] Sometimes a salmon harpoon is used in stead of the salmon spear; a head (Pingerqalik) is seen in Fig. 39 a.

The salmon decoy (eqaluijaq). Fig. 38.1 (Aivilingmiut) consists Image missingFig. 39.Salmon harpoon and decoy. 1 : 2. of a roughly carved fish in ivory, 5.1 cm long, with mouth, eyes and tail fins; it is pierced with two horizontal holes in which hang short strings, both ending in a caribou front tooth, and one vertical hole, through which the line runs; the line, which is of plaited sinew-cord, is 1.98 m long and has at the end a brass sinker, 2.3 cm long; the other end is fastened to the thin end of a wooden rod, 36 cm long. A salmon decoy from Itibdjeriang consists of a wooden handle, 35 cm long, with a unilateral knob at the rear end, a line of plaited sinew-cord 1.26 m long, and a bone fish, 3.5 cm long, with no mouth but having eyes of lead inserted, two small pieces of bone