Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 228.—Arrow-heads of antlei-, one withstone bhule. Eskimo. of canoo. Women use a roomy open skin boat (iwtial) shai)ed likeu trougli, and capable of holding aljout twenty j)eople. With theumia/c single-bladed paddles are emi)loyed, anil a low lug-sail madeof strii)S of walrus-intestine sewn together is sometimes hoisted. Fig. 229.—Canning on ivory ^depicting a wliale-liuiit. Eskimo.
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Fig. 230.—Objects from the Eskimo, a. Ivory lamp-feeder, h. Antlerclub: c. Tobacco-pipe of ivory, d. Snow-knife of bone. e. Gaff for salmon./. Arrow, g. Slate hide-scraper, h. Iron hide-scraper. NORTH AMEKICA 253 On land, the Eskimo travel on snow shoes or in wooden sledgesof various forms the runners of which are usually covered withl^lates of bone. They are drawn by teams of native dogs harnessedwith light seal-hide traces, The Eskimo are possessed of great mechanical and considerableartistic skill. Before iron was known to them they made flintspear and arrow-heads, flaking them not by percussion, but bypressure applied by a horn implement. Their carving is doneby means of knives with curved blades, and holes are drilled bya bow-drill, the bow of which is usually made of bone or walrus-ivory, while the shaft is held steady not by the hands but by theteeth, between which a wooden mouthpiece is held (see fig. 7, e).On these bow-drills and other utensils hunting and other scenes areo

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