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hand-grip slightly bent over; the edge is only slightly formed; the broken edge-end of a similar, rather heavier scraper. A three-sided piece of green serpentine (fig. 27), 3.4 cm long, 1.8 cm broad, 1.2 cm thick; one side is flat, the other has four facets with rounded edges; the whole surface is carefully polished. A small fragment of a stick with slightly bent point, of a slaty kind of stone, presumably of a lamp trimmer. A flat piece of limestone and a piece of stone like basalt show signs of working, the latter by grinding; the end has marks of blows. The corner of a large lamp of soapstone; a piece of the front edge and one of the knobs which have formed a row near this front edge, are preserved; this knob, which is situated 4½ Image missingFig. 27.Carving in Serpentine. Chesterfield Inlet. 2:3. cm from the front edge, is 7½ cm long. A piece of a heavy oval cooking pot of soapstone, the thickness of the sides up to 4 cm; another fragment of a heavy rounded soapstone cooking pot, at least 18 cm high and 2.3 cm thick; 5 other fragments of soapstone cooking pots and a small, cut, oval piece of soap- stone, flat on one side, rounded on the other.

Even although most of these specimens are fairly unimportant, there are, however, types like the broad snow knife with 2 shoulders, the oval soapstone cooking pot and the lamp with the row of knobs near the front edge, which are so characteristic that they show with great probability that the find at Chesterfield Inlet is of the same culture period as the Naujan find, the Thule Culture, as indeed might have been expected from the nature and situation of the ruins.

A harpoon head of Thule type 3 comes from a grave at Chester- field Inlet; it is 7.8 cm long, very decayed and greatly resembles Pl. 1. 11, but lacks its ornamentation. A harpoon head of ivory, of the same type, with 2 pairs of holes for lashing round the shaft socket and ornamented with three longitudinal lines on each side, was found at a grave on the point Panalik on the coast between Repulse Bay and Wager Inlet.

On my sledge journeys to Baffin Land in 1922 and 1923 I visited a large number of the localities where, according to the Eskimos, there were house ruins; what particularly interested me was the situation in relation to the surface of the sea; the heights given are, however, only approximate, as some of them were measured with a small altimeter and others were judged; furthermore, all observations were made in winter, while the country was covered with snow. Other