_Saws._--If the Eskimo had not already invented the saw before they became acquainted with the whites they readily adopted the tool even when they had scanty materials for making it. Crantz[N285] speaks of “a little lock saw” as one of a Greenlander’s regular tools in his time, and Egede[N286] mentions handsaws as a regular article of trade. Capt. Parry[N287] found the natives of Iglulik, in 1821-1823, using a saw made of a notched piece of iron. On our asking Nĭkawa´alu, one day, what they had for tools before they got iron he said that they had drills made of seal bones and saws made of the shoulder blade of the reindeer. Some time afterwards he brought over a model of such a saw, which he said was exactly like those formerly used. Fig. 147, No. 89476 [1206], represents this specimen. It is made by cutting off the anterior edge of a reindeer’s scapula in a straight line parallel to the posterior edge and cutting fine saw teeth on this thin edge. The spine is also cut off nearly flat. This makes a tool very much like a carpenter’s backsaw, the narrow part of the scapula forming a convenient handle. [Footnote N285: History of Greenland, vol. 1, p. 149.] [Footnote N286: Greenland, p. 175.] [Footnote N287: 2d Voyage, p. 536.] [Illustration: FIG. 147.--Saw made of deer’s scapula. 1/4] Fig. 148, No. 56559 [15], shows how other implements were utilized before it was easy to obtain saws in plenty. It is a common case knife stamped on the blade, “Wilson, Hawksworth, ----n & Co., Sheffield,” which perhaps came from the _Plover_, with saw teeth cut on the edge. It was picked up at the Utkiavwĭñ cemetery, where it had been exposed with a corpse. Saws are now a regular article of trade, and most of the natives are provided with them of various styles and makes. The name for saw is uluă´ktun. [Illustration: FIG. 148.--Saw made of a case-knife. 1/3]