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lumps of whalebone, from 6.1 to 5.2 cm long; their form is rather elongated, with the hole in the thin end. There are signs of drilling having been employed in the shaping of one of the balls.

A very curved piece of antler, 33 cm long, about 3 cm wide, the convex side flat, the concave side slightly rounded, has in each end 4 holes, which are connected by pairs by grooves which have been drilled in; this as possibly a piece of a kayak coaming or kayak stool.

Of snow knives there are three broken specimens; one is a very flat handle with one slightly marked shoulder and a unilateral knob at the end, of whalebone; the blade has been drilled off; the length is 11.2 cm. The second is a large fragment of a curved blade of whalebone, the widest part of which is 5.5 cm; it has at any rate one high shoulder. The third is a small stump of a blade of ivory.

Pl. 70.7 (P4.686) is presumably the handle of a snow shovel; it is of antler, with a cut in the lower end in which the tap of the blade could fit and be lashed firm with a lashing running through 2 holes.

A small, flat, knife handle is of whalebone, 10.4 cm long; one edge is straight, the other curved and in this edge, near the point, is a small blade socket, in the other end a hole.

A piece of a similar knife handle to Naujan Pl. 22.2; it is of antler, 9.4 cm long; one side is flat; in one end is a narrow blade socket; 3 holes and a number of notches have held the lashing to the other half. A small fragment with a thin socket and a bed for a lashing has possibly been for a similar knife. Pl. 70.1 (P4.673) is a large, two-edged, knife blade of flint, the largest and finest flint implement known from the Central Regions, perhaps even from the whole Eskimo country; it is almost symmetrical, with a broad tang; one side is a little more flat than the other; its greatest thickness is 1.3 cm.

An adze head of whalebone, defective; a sunk flat for the shaft and in the edges 3 pairs of deep notches for the lashing.

A heavy, very roughly shaped handle for an adze or a mattock; it is of whalebone, 29 cm long; at the upper end the width is 6 cm, and from there it decreases rapidly towards the rear end where, 7 cm from the end, there is a 6½ cm cut for the hand on the fore side of the shaft; 4½ cm from the fore end is an elongated hole for the lashing for the head; the surface is wholly rough and the thickness considerable — up to 3½ cm (near the fore end).

A piece of a whale rib, with a fracture at each end, resembles Naujan Pl. 21.3 (mattock?), but seems to have been pierced with two apertures, in line with each other.

Of wedges for splitting large bones there are 5, their lengths varying from 9½ to 12 cm; one is of whalebone (rather doubtful),