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and ashes, probably a fireplace; here were most of the pieces of a heavy soapstone cooking pot; doorway facing east. Excavated, but work not quite completed; there will however hardly be much left in this house.
In it were found:
3 harpoon heads of Thule type 3 (Pl. 1.7. 11 and 12); 1 of type 6; unfinished toy harpoon head of wood; 2 foreshafts for ice-harpoons (Pl. 3.5–6); 7 socket-pieces and pieces of collars for fore ends of harpoons; 2 ice picks; wooden holder for harpoon bladder (Pl. 4.9); a heavy and a small lance head; 2 bone harpoon blades (Pl. 7.18) and 5 of slate; piece of heavy shaft of whalebone (Pl. 4.7) and 4 other pieces of shafts; arrow head with barb (Pl. 9.4) and blade slit (Pl. 9.10); a baleen bow and arrow (Pl. 35.1 and 3); a broken shaft end and arrow head with conical tang; a blunt arrow head; 14 pieces of thin bone shafts (for arrow heads etc.); 4 pieces of wooden arrow-shafts (Pl. 8.11); piece of arrow blade of flint; side prong for salmon spear (Pl. 12.4); 4 barbs for salmon spears (Pl. 12.11 and 17); small leister prong with 4 barbs (Pl. 10.6); salmon decoy (Pl. 11.10); 2 bola balls (Pl. 11.1 and 8); middle prong of bird dart (Pl. 8.13); sledge cross-bar (Pl. 13.7) 2 whalebone sledge-shoes; 2 trace buckles; 7 broken pieces of snow knives (Pl. 15.10); knife for squeezing out water (Pl. 13.14) and a broken piece of one; ferrule of a snow-probe; knife-handle with one-sided blade. slit and 4 other pieces of knife-handles (Pl. 18.8); a broken end of a knife with grooves for blade in the sides (Pl. 17.4); head of an adze (Pl. 20.4); shaft of an adze; 2 mattock blades (Pl. 21.3 and 5); drill (Pl. 22.9); a mouthpiece of a drill (Pl. 22.15) and a drill-point of jade; 3 hand-drills; 6 whetting stones; 4 ulo handles (Pl. 23.10) and 2 slate blades; 4 scrapers, of which 2 of caribou shoulder-blade and 2 of stone (Pl. 25.5); club of walrus penis-bone; 6 broken pieces of lamps (Pl. 26.3. 5 and 7); the most of a heavy, oval cooking pot (Pl. 27); 3 pieces of cooking pots; 10 indeterminable soapstone pieces; meat hook (Pl. 28.11); 6 ornamental pendants of ivory (Pl. 30.6. 14. 17. 20 and 23) and 2 of slate (Pl. 31.5 and 7); 2 figures of birds (Pl. 32.2) and 3 human figures (Pl. 32.7 and 9); small figure of a seal (Pl. 29.8); 3 stone balls; pieces of a copper ring and a small piece of copper; 2 baleen points with barbs (Pl. 35.9 and 10); 4 pieces of baleen with knots; small square bone piece; 10 pieces of indeterminable slate blades, 19 pieces of indeterminable bone implements, 14 pieces of indeterminable wooden objects (Pl. 34.25), 2 pieces of flint refuse, piece of rock crystal, piece of skin, Mytilus shell. Animal bones were not counted.
VI. Undisturbed. Almost circular (Fig. 8), 5¼ metres in diameter; walls of stone and turf, but wholly fallen in. Was excavated. In the rearmost part a number of flat stones covered with Cassiope, presumably the remnants of the collapsed platform. The bottom in the centre of the house was 1½ metres below the upper edge of the wall; no regular flooring; gravel under the cultural deposit; doorway facing south and joining the entrance to V.
This house ruin contained: