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[[boxed date]] 1862 June 10 Tues [[/boxed date]] of Tuk-oo-lik-e-tu the infant of Tuk-oo-li-too. Ebierbing the Wing-a (husband) of the latter is the son of the daughter of O. now dead. The Innuit for Grandmother & Grt. Gd. mother already stated [[encircled 1]] For convenience & simplicity of reference & explanation I have numbered each line on the 2 preceeding pages taken from ^[[the original]] pencilings made in Oo-ki-jox-y-ni-noo's Tupik. The numbers that now follow refer to the numbers on said pages. [[encircled 1]] [[encircled 2]] [[encircled 3]] require no additional mention. [[encircled 4]] Oo-ki-jox-y-ni-noo had said that her Grand-father's father (An-moung-a) lived before Ee-lou-ju-arng was born also before the ships & white men ever came here. This puzzled me. She said that her grandfather (Ee-twong-ar) saw the white men who lived on Kod-lu-narn - also saw Ee-loud-ju-arng - ^[[he her grandfather)]] had lived with him (Ee-loud-ju-arng) Her grandfather the one that told her (O.) all about it. [[encircled 5]] All at once Old O. took up the Ood-loo woman's knife of this shape [[image: drawing of a knife with a curved blade with a handle rising from the center of the arc of the blade, looks like at T riding in a crescent]] (mince meat knife(chopping knife) of the States) & severed off a lock of her hair giving it into my hands desiring I would take it home to America & show it to a great many of the American people. Her hair nearly all black only now & then a white (gray) hair on her head. [[encricled 6]] Her Grandfather was born before the White men who lived on Kod-lu-narn came here. They came here in one ship - only one ship came into the Bay Tu-nuk-jok-ping-oo-sy-arng Her Grandfather almost always lived around that Bay. Was very old man when he died - could do nothing only sit or lie down many years before he died. Once while he lived a little child was left in the Igloo for him to take care of (the other [[strikethrough]] wh l [[/strikethrough]] people who lived in same Igloo (snow house) have gone out. The child got out of the Igloo when her Grandfather did not know it [[end page]] [[start page]] [[boxed date]] 1862 June 10 Tues [[/boxed date]] The dogs instantly seized the child tore it to pieces & ate it up before any assistance was at hand - the dogs then very numerous & very hungry. While old O. related this painful incident her memory the attention of Oo-kood-lear & Tuk-oo-li-too profound - they were filled with astonishment & wonderment. [[encircled 7]] Never was there a vessel here before - the Innuits received by [[?beaten]] iron with wh. they made [[strikethrough]] nedl [[/strikethrough]] needles - before that only had bone needles. [[encircled 8]] The ship that the Kod-lu-nars build here had three masts wh she represented by holding out (hesitatingly first [[underlined]] two [[/underlined]] then [[underlined]] three [[/underlined]] fingers. The white men gave Innuits beads. [[encircled 9]] When O. was young she saw Oug (red) stone brought here by Kod-lu-nar of large size. She described the size by drawing her hand over the surface of the two legs of native boots (Kurn-mings) that were before her flat side down side by side). [The limits of her sign draughting was 10 or 12 inches long & 5 or 6 inches wide. [[strikethrough]] [ [[/strikethrough]] This evidently must have been tile]. [[below the word "tile" is a tiny initial "FH." as if Hall may have added the brackets.]] There are now said O. a great many little Oug (red) pieces of the same on Kod-lu-nar 'The Innuit women use them to clean their Kan-oons head ornaments of brass that they wear on the head. I asked O. what these red stones were brought here by the white people for? She said to make a house - but as they were too small [not enough of them] [[tiny initial "H." below the terminal bracket mark]] they could'nt make a house'. [[encircled 10]] [[encircled 11]] O. spoke of a place on Kod-lu-narn that the white men who lived there dug in the ground to catch & hold water. She says that all the Innuits said that the water was always very cold in that dug out place. Could not get anything out of her relating to the ship's trench on same Island. [[encircled 12]] O. has seen a very "heavy-stone" that Kod-lu-nar brought here - 1st saw it on Oo-pung-ne-wing - Innuits often tried to lift it - the strongest could only get it up to their knees - She has seen [[?am-a-su-it ^[[(many pieces)]] black stone on Ni-oun-te-lik & Kod-lu-narn _ & little white stone in among it that Innuits use to strike fire with. No such stone grow in the Innuit Country! White men bring them to Innuit Country. Has see little pieces [[end page]]
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See page 544 in Hall's book. Chopping knife similar to the image: https://www.etsystudio.com/listing/518168176/old-chopping-knife-vintage-cutting-tool?ref=related_like.
