Noksak

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A noksak (slingshot) is a handguard developed by the Inuit Labradors for throwing a spear . It is made from a kind of board and has been used since around 5000 BC. Was in use in North America. The wooden instrument has a recess for inserting the projectile, four openings for the fingers and a hole for the thumb of the spear thrower.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mary Belle Myers: Things made by Inuit , Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec, 1980, p 94th
  2. ↑ Jean-Luc Piel-Desruisseaux: Outils préhistoriques. Du galet taillé au bistouri d'obsidienne , 6th edition Dunod, 2011, p. 267.