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3 are of antler and one is made out of a snow-knife blade of ivory.

Of whetting stones there are one and a fragment, both of a dark grey mica slate; the fragment is flat, ground on the two flat sides; the other is prismatic, 12 cm long, ground on 4 sides. A flat, triangular, ground piece of slate has apparently also been employed as a whetting stone.

Pl. 71.5 (P4. 555) is a drill bow of whalebone, well made, rounded-quadrangular in section, a little wider and flatter at the ends; another bow, likewise of whalebone, is 19 cm long and only 0.7 broad.

A caribou astragulus has served as a mouthpiece for a bow drill, and a piece of leg bone, shaped like Qilalukan Pl. 49.14, but narrower, has been used as a drill point; length 3.9 cm.

Pl. 71.6 (P4. 696) is a flint flaker, of the upper end of a walrus rib; the point is fairly blunt. A knife or dagger-like implement has been formed out of a bear ulna; the joint head has been cut to form a good hand-grip; half of the bone tissue of the shank has been removed and one edge sharpened for cutting; the lower end of the specimen is broken off; the length is now 20 cm.

Pl. 70.6 (P4. 503) is an ulo with a flint blade. The handle, of whalebone, is a slender, elegant variant of Naujan Pl. 24.3; the grip is narrow and at each extremity ends in two points, between which is a saddle-shaped hollow; the flint blade, which is inserted in a slit in the handle, is well made and has an even, curved edge. 8 (P4. 616) is a grip of ivory for an ulo, very thick (up to 2.8 cm), pierced by 3 holes for lashing the blade in; a fourth, round hole runs from the back into the blade slit, which is very large and wide (up to 1.7 cm); when this ulo handle was found it was in two pieces, lying separately in two platform spaces of the house. 2 (P4.678) is an ulo entirely of flint; the back is rather thick, parts of it with incrustation, which gives a good grip; the edge is sharp, evenly curved, carefully made; the greatest thickness — near the back — is 1.6 cm. 3 (P4.674) is a large ulo blade of flint; the edge, which is only faintly curved, has been carefully shaped, narrow and keen; the back, which is thicker and more roughly shaped, is more curved; the greatest thickness is 1.1 cm; this blade must have been fixed in a handle. Two smaller flint blades are also of ulos; one is 3.2 cm long, 3.1 cm broad, with a very curved edge and two broad notches for lashing to the handle; the other is similar in size, with a very curved edge, no tang. Of ulo blades of slate there are two broken specimens, one 8.9 cm long.

Of scrapers there are 4 of the usual type, of caribou scapula (Naujan Pl. 25.1–3); they are all more or less damaged and only one has the head worked; the lengths are from 11 to 13 cm.