Agto saw-toothed blade

Source term: brummer

Thirteen centimetres of wood, cut to a narrow leaf and notched all the way round like a saw blade, then tied at its tip to a long cord. It comes from Agto, the small settlement now called Attu, south of Aasiaat, in the old Egedesminde district of West Greenland, and was given to the National Museum in Copenhagen in 1918, where it was catalogued as a brummer, a 'hummer', and filed among games. On the far side of the ice cap, at Ammassalik, the same saw-toothed blades were children's toys.

Particulars

Object

A wooden leaf-shaped blade, 13 × 2.6 cm, notched like a saw along both edges and tied at its narrow tip to a long cord. National Museum of Denmark, L.7956.

Function

Plaything: the museum files it among games.