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and pieces of same, as well as two large antlers, all apparently used for the roofing.

Besides the house itself, 4 sq. metres were excavated in front of the entrance; no particularly thick layer of refuse had accumulated here, however; only two specimens and 68 animal bones were found.

In the upper part of the turf were found an iron drill and some glass beads, apparently later mixtures, as the place has been inhabited repeatedly in more recent times; not only has the house ruin east of the stream been used as a qarmaq, but down in the mouth of the valley there are several new tent rings and meat caches, while on the terrace just by the excavated house ruin there are two tent rings, although not quite recent, but at any rate of a much later period than the house ruins; it has thus been a simple matter for later objects to be intermixed.

Otherwise the specimens from this house ruin bear a fairly uniform stamp; the find comprises the following objects; the more detailed description will follow later as well as that of the specimens from Qilalukan.[1]

Three harpoon heads of Thule type 2 (Pl. 39.1 and 5); a whaling harpoon head (fig. 47); a socket piece for harpoon shaft, tubular; a fixed lance head of whalebone and two fragments of similar heads; blades for harpoon, of deer's leg bone and of slate without peg hole (Pl. 44.13); ice pick (Pl. 41.8); 11 small flint blades and fragments of same (Pl. 44.16, 18 and 20); 3 wound plugs; piece of a sealing stool (?) (Fig. 59); two pieces of wooden bows (Pl. 42.1–2) and a piece of a toy bow of baleen; arrow head with blade slit and lashing notches; piece of wooden arrow shaft; side prong and middle prong (?) of a bird dart (Pl. 41.13); 2 bola balls (Pl. 43.9); side prong and three barbs for salmon spear (Pl. 43.3 and 5); piece of net of baleen (Pl. 59); two gull hooks (Pl. 43.13); two sledge shoes of whalebone, 5 of baleen; fragment of sledge cross-bar of whalebone (Pl. 45.7); 2 trace buckles; piece of kayak cross-bar (?) bound with baleen (Pl. 45.8); 4 snow-knives (Pl. 46.2 and fig. 53); knife handle with side blade-slit; 10 single-edged slate knife-blades and fragments of same (Pl. 47.6–7); 6 whetting stones (Pl. 47.10–11 and 13); mouthpiece for bow-drill of caribou astragalus (Pl. 49.6): fragment of drill bow (?); hand-drill haft of wood (Pl. 49.5); 2 drill points of flint (Pl. 49.9–10); mattock blade of whale rib (Pl. 45.12); piece of adze blade (Pl. 48.4); handle and 3 slate blades for ulos (Pl. 50.1 and 8); 2 scrapers of caribou scapula; small scraper blade of flint; piece of slate scraper: thimble of skin; 9 shards of indeterminable soapstone vessels; oval, hollowed out wooden bowl (Pl. 53.5); fragment of oval bowl bottom of wood; fragment of meat hook (?); 4 pierced animals' teeth; a tubular bead of narwhal tusk (Pl. 57.(illegible text)); a bear figure (Pl. 57.9); 5 human figures (Pl. 57.15, 17 and 18); 15 fragments of stone objects, mostly slate blades; 18 fragments of indeterminable bone objects; 41 worked pieces of baleen, knots, etc.; 39 worked pieces of wood, 13 pieces of flint waste, a number of wooden sticks, worked bone pieces, stumps of seal skin, bird skin, egg shells, a piece of seal line.

  1. ↑ All specimens from Mitimatalik bear the number P5.
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