[351]. See also the reference to Hooper’s Corwin Report, quoted below under Hunting.
[352]. See, however, the writer’s paper in the American Anthropologist, vol. 1, p. 333.
[353]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 117, Fig. 3.
[354]. Second Voyage, p. 510; also pl. opposite p. 550, Fig. 17.
[355]. “They first look out for Holes, which the Seals themselves make with their Claws about the Bigness of a Halfpenny; after they have found any Hole, they seat themselves near it upon a Chair, made for the Purpose; and as soon as they perceive the Seal coming up to the Hole and put his snout into it for some Air, they immediately strike him with a small Harpoon.” Egede, Greenland, p. 104.
“The seals themselves make sometimes holes in the Ice, where they come and draw breath; near such a hole a Greenlander seats himself on a stool, putting his feet on a lower one to keep them from the cold. Now when the seal comes and puts its nose to the hole, he pierces it instantly with his harpoon.” Crantz, History of Greenland, vol. 1, p. 156.
[356]. It is twisted into “a compact helical mass like a watch-spring” in the Hudson Bay region. Schwatka, “Nimrod in the North,” p. 133. See also Klutschak, “Als Eskimo,” pp. 194, 195.
[357]. “Nimrod in the North,” p. 133.
[358]. See Gilder, Schwatka’s Search, p. 225; see also, Klutschak, “Als Eskimo,” etc., pp. 194-5, where the whalebones are said to have little knives on the ends.
[359]. Report, etc., p. 127.