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one side partly fallen in; 1.45 × 0.7 m; NW.—SE. Skull in the S. end; most of the skeleton preserved. The body seems to have lain with the face towards the NE. and the legs drawn up.

Grave 26. Almost undisturbed; but to the west a small hole which has enabled a fox to go in; 1.4 × 0.6 m; E.—W. The skull to the east, although a part of the roof of the skull almost in the middle of the grave, slightly to the west.

Grave 27. Strongly built grave but entirely collapsed; the roof removed; NNW.—SSE. At the NE. end 3 fragments of a round wooden shaft, about 2½ cm thick, the largest fragment 65 cm long; under a stone a roll, 19 cm long, of cut up pieces of birch bark; rows of holes at several places in the edges.

Grave 28. Roof removed; one side partly collapsed; length 1.25 m; NW.—SE. Skull in SE. end; a split caribou marrow bone.

Grave 29. Roof removed; partly collapsed; NW.—SE.; only few bones, no skull.

Grave 30. Roof removed; one side collapsed; 1.4 × 0.6 m; WNW.—ESE.; only few limb bones.

Grave 31. Roof removed; 1.35 × 0.65 m; E.—W.; no skull; in the middle of the grave thigh bones and lower jaw bone.

Grave 32. Appears comparatively new; 1.6 × 0.65 m; N.—S.; regular quadrangular; the stones only slightly overgrown, and Cassiope between them and in the bottom; roof removed; the grave empty. Outside a piece of a shaft, bound with sinew thread and seal line.

Grave 33. Strongly built; roof removed; 1.4 × 0.8 m; WNW.—ESE.; from the S. side leads a sort of passage, a low cavity, covered with a heavy stone, about 1 metre to the south. In the grave 4 limb bones.

Group III. On the plateau just West of the settlement. Six graves; 17–25 m above sea-level.

Grave 34. Entirely collapsed; most of the skull and some other bones preserved.

Grave 35. Entirely collapsed.

Grave 36. Entirely collapsed; skull, lower jaw bone etc. preserved.

Grave 37. Fairly well preserved; two of the roofing stones displaced a little and fallen down; 1.65 × 0.65 m; NE.—SW. In the SW. end the skull, but the lower jaw-bone in the N. corner. At the west end, just outside the grave, 2 bear teeth and, under a very large stone, about 1 metre from the west end, the whaling harpoon head Pl. 37. 14; this is a very fine specimen, of ivory, of the same type as the whaling harpoon head from the settlement find (Pl. 4.8). Neither in this specimen is the blade slit particularly deep (2 cm); 0.4 cm