[311]. Parry’s 2d Voyage, Pl. opposite p. 550, Fig. 24.
[312]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 106.
[313]. “They buckle on a piece of ivory, called mun-era, about 3 or 4 inches long, hollowed out to the wrist, or a guard made of several pieces of ivory or wood fastened together like an iron-holder.” Voyage, p. 575.
[314]. This word appears to be a diminutive of the Greenlandic nuek—nuik, now used only in the plural, nugfit, for the spear. These changes of name may represent corresponding changes in the weapon in former times, since, unless we may suppose that the bird dart was made small and called the “little nuik,” and enlarged again after the meaning of the name was forgotten, it is hard to see any sense in the present name, “big little nuik.”
[315]. History of Greenland, vol. 1, p. 148.
[316]. Crantz, vol. 1, p. 147, and Figs. 6 and 7, Pl. V.
[317]. Ibid., Fig. 8.
[318]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 105. Fig. 5.
[319]. See Crantz’s figure referred to above; also one in Parry’s second voyage, Pl. opposite p. 550, Fig. 19, and Rink, Tales., etc., Pl. opposite p. 12.
[320]. Prehistoric fishing, Figs. 94 and 95, p. 73.