other bushes and dry moss and lichen are also used. Ledum is an excellent fuel; but cooking with Dryas is troublesome, because its twigs are slow to ignite and give only little heat.
For digging moss for fuel or lamp-wick the women use a small, short-handled spade [tilu·t], made of the shovel of an antler by removing some of the prongs.[1] A moss spade (P 28: 179; fig. 19a) made in this manner is 27 cm long and the triangular blade 17.5 cm broad; Image missingFig. 19.Moss spades. from the Pâdlimiut, Eskimo Point. From the Ahiarmiut west of Baker Lake comes a similiar specimen (P 28: 174; fig. 19°b) with a more square blade; length 32.3, breadth 9.2 cm. There are also specimens from Baker Lake (P 28: 175) and the Hanneqtôrmiut (P 28: 176).
Heather is either tied up in bundles, which are carried over head and breast in the tump-line (fig. 20) or stuffed into big bags. There is a bag of this kind from the Pâdlimiut at Eskimo Point (P 28: 169) formed of the completely flayed skin of a caribou, head, neck and limbs having been cut off. At the opening are two straps for tying it up. Size about 100 by 60 cm.
There is no prohibition as among the Copper Eskimos against using drift-wood from the sea for cooking land animals; this, however, is of no consequence, as drift-wood is only to be found far to the south in Hudson Bay at the extreme boundaries of the Caribou Eskimo territory. Drage relates that the Coast Eskimos in the eighteenth century "make a Fire of Sea-Weed dried".[2]
In winter the fire is, as already stated, made on flat stones in an open out-house to the snow house. In summer it always burns in the open air when the weather is good. In case of bad weather there is a small fire-place in the tent at the side of the doorway. A couple of
