. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Here also oi-iuitiated the whole scheme of knots and s])liees, as will })e al)undantly shown in the illustrations that follow. The Eskimo made a ])utton or frog" on the end of a rawhide line }>y cutting a slit near the end and doubling the end back through the slit. They were extremely neat and skillful in ott' lashings. Boas and Murdoch I T.^/ R « have given special attention to the Eskimo knots. ' \ / 1 With the lin(% i
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Here also oi-iuitiated the whole scheme of knots and s])liees, as will })e al)undantly shown in the illustrations that follow. The Eskimo made a ])utton or frog" on the end of a rawhide line }>y cutting a slit near the end and doubling the end back through the slit. They were extremely neat and skillful in ott' lashings. Boas and Murdoch I T.^/ R « have given special attention to the Eskimo knots. ' \ / 1 With the lin(% in its highest estate, go certain SlL^ "^—^ /.f accessories, such as the eyelet, for making fast w f to a peg on the shaft (tig. H). the line rack on the kaiak, and a multitude of ingenious inventions which Nelson calls "detachers," since the}^ make it possible in the frozen Arctic for the hunter to take his apparatus apart under the most trying- circumstances. In order to prevent the line from getting out of order, a swivel is sometimes used. One broug'ht from Cumberland Sound by Kumlien and de- scribed by him is represented in lig. 4. There was a ball in the hollow body of this instrument, which could not be pulled through any of the openings. One line was fastened to this ball, passing through the central hole, and another one to the top of the swivel. A simpler pattern is represented by Boas,' in which the ball in the socket would ])e a spherical knot on the end of the line. FloaU.—The sealskin bag used as a Hoat on the end of the line of the harpoon for killing whale and beluga is in Una- leet rigaii uk, bag; in Malemut Aygt niik; the float, in both dialects, is Oa tuk. Nelson describes two sizes. The smaller one is fastened to the line after the beluga has become unable to struggle much. The large float which has tired the beluga is at the end of the line. This small one is gradually slipped nearer by the man in the kaiak until it is distant 4 or 5 feet
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