gradually make its mark upon their skill as caribou hunters, for this occupation requires good lungs. Tobacco is always mixed with finely-cut whortleberry leaves,[1] which give it an infernal smell. It is the wife's duty every morning to cut up these leaves on her cutting board with the ulo.
The Caribou Eskimos always smoke a pipe [pulojäc·it] which, as Boas has shown, is of the Indian monitor type and without doubt borrowed from their neighbours to the south.[2] From the Pâdlimiut at Hikoligjuaq there are several pipes. One (P 28: 160) has a monitor shaped head of soapstone, at the bottom formed of an opened cartridge case; the stem is of two pieces of wood, wound with sinew thread, the mouthpiece slightly flattened. Length 12.2 cm, height of head 4 cm. Another pipe (P 28: 161) has at the back and front of the head two inlaid brass rings, whilst a third (P 28: 164) has a head entirely of iron. From the Qaernermiut at Baker Lake there is a pipe of the same type as the above (P 28: 163; fig. 47 b). The head is of soapstone, edged at the top with brass, at the bottom inserted into a cartridge case. The wooden stem is slightly flattened at the mouthpiece. Length 17.7 cm, height of the head 5.8 cm. A similar specimen (P 28: 162; fig. 47 a) comes from the Hauneqtôrmiut.
