The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . r,and bones. For crushing the bones there is in every tent ahammer, consisting of oval stone with a hollow round it for XII.] STONE HAMMERS. 483 a skin tliong, with which the stone is fastened to the short shaftof wood or bone. The bones which are used for food are finelycrushed with this implement against a stone anvil or awhales vertebra, and then boiled with water and blood, beforebeing eaten. At first w^e believed that this dish was intendedfor the dogs,
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . r,and bones. For crushing the bones there is in every tent ahammer, consisting of oval stone with a hollow round it for XII.] STONE HAMMERS. 483 a skin tliong, with which the stone is fastened to the short shaftof wood or bone. The bones which are used for food are finelycrushed with this implement against a stone anvil or awhales vertebra, and then boiled with water and blood, beforebeing eaten. At first w^e believed that this dish was intendedfor the dogs, but afterwards I had an opportunity of convincingmyself that the natives themselves ate it; and that long beforethe time when they suffered from scarcity of provisions. Thehammer is further of interest as forming one of the stone im-plements which are most frequently found in graves from theStone Age. That the hammer was mainly intended for kitchenpurposes appears from the circumstance that the women alonehad it at their disposal, and were consulted when it was partedwith. Along with such hammers there was to be found in every. STONE HAMMERS AND ANVIL FOR CRUSHING BONES. (One-sixth of the natural size.) tent an anvil, consisting of a whales vertebra or a large roundstone with a bowl-formed depression worn or cut out in themiddle of it. During winter a great portion of the inhabitants of Yinretlen,Pitlekaj, and as far as from Irgunnuk, came daily on board tobeg or buy themselves provisions, and during this period theywere fed mainly by us. They soon accustomed themselves toour food. They appeared specially fond of pea-soup and por-ridge. The latter they generally laid out on a snow-drift tofreeze, and then took it in the frozen form to the they did not care for unless it was well sugared. Saltthey did not use, but with sugar they were all highly also drank tea with pleasure. Otherwise water formstheir principal drink. They were, however, often cumpell
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