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Image missingFig. 18.Harpoon Head. Grave 52, Simiutaq. 1:2 little further forward; two other facet-ground slate blades with holes and one without; a bone blade with hole for a harpoon head; an ivory wound plug, 13.5 cm long; a fore-shaft for a bird harpoon like Pl. 37. 13; a 29 cm long arrow head with conical tang and 2 knobs, at the fore-end a flat and 2 holes for lashing on a blade; an arrow head of similar length with scarf-face and lashing notches for joining on to shaft, the fore-end with a blade-flat. Five other fragments of arrow heads; two have blade-flats in the fore-end, two have conical tangs. A long, two-edged slate blade for a lance or a knife. Twenty fragments of wooden shafts or the like (arrow shafts, etc.), all much decayed; a walrus vertebra and a piece of caribou leg bone.
Grave 53. Roof partly removed; 1.4 × 0.4m; NE.—SW.; only 2 bones of the skeleton. At the north side, outside the grave, lay 2 long much decayed pieces of bone, each with 2 holes, and 4 fragments of wooden arrow shafts.
Grave 54. A roofing stone at the SW. end removed; 1.5 × 0.45 m; NE.—SW.; no bones; at the NE. end, outside the grave, lay the specimens Pl. 37. 1-8; 2 is a large, handsome harpoon head of Thule type 2; it is of ivory, has been broken but again bound together; 3 is a smaller harpoon head of the same type, with a very defective blade. 4 is a combination of Thule types 2 and 3, not met with in the settlement find, of antler, with one powerful barb and a fairly thin slit for a blade. 1 is a fore-shaft of antler with a central hole, slightly bent by a fallen stone; 5 is a facetted bone-blade for harpoon, 6 a mouth-piece for a bow-drill of caribou astragalus, 7 a fragment of a wooden bow; 8 is a walrus molar with a hole not quite drilled through, apparently the handle of a snow-probe or breathing-hole probe. There are also a fragment of a twister for the sinew backing of a bow, a small wedge of antler, a fragment of a thick slate blade and 2 pieces of caribou leg bone.
Group VII. On Jacob Ridge, West of Naujan Hill. 9 Graves, about 44 metres above s. 1.; gave the impression of being very old but were not examined. The same applies to two, probably later, graves by the later tent