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although one could see a main platform and a small side platform. In this house the cultural deposits were partly covered by a thin Image missingFig. 7.Naujan. House Ruin II. layer of sand, washed down from the higher terrain by a small snow-stream which had broken through the wall of the house.

In this house ruin were found: A harpoon head of the Thule type 2[1] (PI. 1.5) and a partly finished ditto; a harpoon head of type 5; foreshaft of an ice-harpoon (Pl. 3.7) and the broken end of a foreshaft; two finger rests for harpoons, one with saddle-shaped carving; 2 small lance heads and a piece of one, 4 bone blades for harpoon or lance heads, a jade blade for harpoon, 2 slate blades, one with opposite notches in the shaft end (Pl. 7.8. 10. 12. 10 and 20) and 4 broken pieces of harpoon or lance points; a wooden holder for harpoon bladder; the end of an arrow head with conical tang with 2 knobs and of an arrow head with blade slit; 2 bird harpoon heads (Pl. 10.10–11); a barb for a salmon spear (Pl. 12.10); a bola balt (Pl. 11.2) a broken piece of a whalebone[2] sledge shoe; a cross-bar of whalebone; 3 buckles (Pl. 14.7); point of a snow knife of whalebone; a slender, two-edged knife blade of slate (Pl. 19.5); two small pieces of slate knife-blades; a slate whetting stone; 3 drills (Pl. 22.18); slate point for drill; 4 wedges (Pl. 16.10); 3 ulo blades of slate (Pl. 19.14); whalebone shave (Pl. 24.11); 2 scrapers of reindeer shoulder-blade; an oval bowl-bottom of wood; ivory[3] beads (Pl. 31.11); 3 tooth pendants (Pl. 29.14); 2 slate ornamental pendants (Pl. 31.3–4); 5 bone birds, 2 of which with human upper-bodies (Pl. 32.6); 2 pieces of heavy, roundish cooking pots, 3 of more straight soapstone pots (Pl. 26.11); a baleen knot; 16 pieces of shafts, other indeterminable pieces of bone implements, unfinished pieces, etc.; piece of a flint blade; 2 indeterminable wooden objects. The animal bones were not counted in this ruin nor in the other disturbed houses.

III. Forms a peculiar, long hollow, 3.6 metres long from east to west, with many stones; the doorway leads from the west end of the hollow to the SW.; many large stones and a few whale bones protrude from the turf, which otherwise has overgrown and levelled everything out almost into undistinguishableness. Was not excavated.

  1. ↑ As to the meaning of the term Thule-type 1–3, see page 24–25.
  2. ↑ In this work the word "whalebone" will always mean whale's bone, whereas by the word "baleen" is meant the common expression "whalebone".
  3. ↑ Except where otherwise stated, "ivory" is to be understood as walrus tusk.
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