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1861 Oct 12th Sat.

Oo-pung-ne-wing.
Ugarny saw this relic, (wh. to me is yet undetermined as to its true character) when a young man:  He says that one very strong Innuit, now dead, could lift - [[underlined]] & even did shoulder it. [[/underlined]]  No other Innuit could accomplish the same feat.  Another lifted it to the height of his knees but dropted it quickly!  Only very few Innuits able to raise it from the ground.  Koo-ou-le-arny ("Susy") at my request has just made a pencil sketch of its shape - at least as near it as she could.  She evidently never took a pencil in her hand before.  Ugarny who is quite experienced in map sketching, has marked out its shape on same leaf as Koo-ou-le-arny's sketch.  This has some correspondence to the delineation of the one Artarkparu made some days since.  Later -
This minute hX-m15 AM have found out just what this Relic is! - [[underlined]] It is an Anvil!! [[/underlined]] Such as made

[[note]] See An-na-was model p6 of Oct 15/61 H. [[/note]]
[[note]] See Susy's model p 7th Oct. 15/61 [[/note]]
[[note]] See Vol 1 silver plate silk & linen book page (E) blank leaf H. N.Y. Apr 23/64 [[/note]]

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(of course) in former times - without *"horn".  To get at this, I got Ugarny to cut out with his Knife its representation in Wood.  When he finished it I held it out, asking: [[underlined]] *'Kis-sue?' [[/underlined]] that is: What was the heavy iron at Oo-pung-ne-wing formerly used for?  His answer was an intelligible one - & [[underlined]] one that determines the nature of this important relic beyond all question. [[/underlined]]  Before I give it, I will say that this Innuit has been to the States - while there, he desired to & did visit various manufacturing establishments being of himself, naturally, of a [[underlined]] mechanical [[/underlined]] turn of mind.  I will give his answer on stating that, - Holding the index finger of his left hand on the little carved Block as I held it up, with his other hand angled into first & raised above finger, to represent hammer, he said:
'All the same as Blacksmith.'
This expression in connection with his pertinent symbolizing, [[underlined]] settles the matter satisfactory to my mind that the relic of Frobisher on Oo-pung-ne-wing is an Anvil. [[/underlined]]

(* pronounced as it spelt [[underlined]] Kiss you.)[[/underlined]]
* The blacksmith of this vessel informs me that anvils of this description are in use to a limited extent present day.