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Image missingFig. 37.Lyon Inlet. Quiver handle. Comer Coll. 1:3. Image missingFig. 38.Lyon Inlet. Knife with slate-blade. Comer Coll. 1:3. of type 4, one exactly like Pl. 2. 1, on the other the part in front of the line hole is divided into three by longitudinal grooves in the same manner as the harpoon head Pl. 37. 14. A heavy socket piece for a har- poon shaft, like Pl. 3. 10, but larger, and a smaller, similar one, very much widened out at the fore-end and with the socket for the fore-shaft narrow, running to a point at the bottom. Fig. 37 (⁠60/6305⁠) is a handsomely carved bow-shape, presumably a quiver handle. Fig. 38 (⁠60/6329⁠) is a knife, the handle of bone, the blade of slate. Three ulo handles, all without tang and with a hole for the finger; on two of them the back is very thick; one has similar saddle-formed ends on the hand-grip to Pl. 24. 3. A mattock blade of whale rib, with opposite notches in the side edges for lash- ing to the shaft.

From Lyon Inlet there is also a har- poon head of Thule type 1 (IV C 126), which is in the National Museum at Ottawa.

From Iglulik there are 6 bola balls (IV A 7836–40, "Knöchener Sinker") and a broken snow knife of whale- bone with two shoulders (IV A 7866), all in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin; from their appearance these specimens are old, taken from the ground.

From the Iglulik Eskimo Aua we received a collection of speci- mens which he had found on the peninsula Anangiarsuk, south of Amitsoq on the east coast of Melville Peninsula. These were found together and originate from a group of Eskimos who had starved to death a little before Aua's father was born'; as Aua is a man of sixty, this information takes the find back to about a hundred years ago, almost to Parry's time.

The find consists of 30 different objects, the most important being shown in Pl. 38; is a heavy harpoon head of ivory, the same type as is still used in walrus hunting; the blade is of iron; two smaller, defective specimens belong to the same type, although on one the spur is bifurcated. 2 is a fixed fore-shaft of ivory for a walrus harpoon, as used to this day; at the rear end it terminates in