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Seven sewing needles were found, although two are broken. They are of ivory, rather flat, distinctly square in section, with a small round eye; they are all exceedingly beautifully and carefully made. The lengths are from 4.4 to 2.9 cm, whilst the greatest breadth is 0.2 cm. Pl. 69.9–10 (P4. 630 and 463) shows two of these needles. Three bone points, broken, 5.3–10.0 cm long, two of leg bone, the third of ivory, have apparently served as bodkins. A cut piece of bird bone (Pl. 69.16. P4.510), 5.2 cm long, up to 1.5 cm thick, has possibly served as a needle case. Pl. 69.8 (P4. 509) is a bone implement, consisting of a fairly narrow, thick handle and a thin blade, Image missingFig. 79.Soapstone Lamp. House Ruin VII, Kuk. 13. especially sharp at the end; this suggests an implement like the Greenland boot creaser or, like a similar specimen which we received from the Iglulik Eskimos, used for drawing the patterns on skins before they were cut up.

Fig. 79 (P4. 685) is a small rough lamp of a loose soapstone like radiolite; the walls are very thick, but it is on the whole interesting in that it has two rather flat knobs. near the front edge, just like the lamps already referred to from Naujan, Ponds Inlet and Chesterfield Inlet. Another lamp is of a similar radiolite kind of rock; it is 15 cm long, 10 cm broad, very thickly walled; it simply forms an oval hollow and resembles the lamps Naujan Pl. 26.1–2; here, too, the poor material is apparently responsible for the primitive shape. There were also four polshards of true soapstone; one is a small, rounded corner of a lamp or bowl; another is a fairly flat piece, about 20 cm long; a third of a cooking pot of a thickness up to 2.4 cm, almost straight with two large holes, from which deep grooves run to the rim. Of lime-stone cooking pots there are only two small, flat pieces of slabs, 0.5–0.6 cm thick, one with two holes which as usual have been made by boring from both sides. A bone stick, 16 cm long, rather hollow, pointed, of caribou leg bone, has apparently been used as marrow spoon.

Pl. 70.9 (P4. 706) is an unfinished pair of snow goggles; the specimen is of antler, slightly curved; a cut has been made for the nose and the eye-slits have been commenced by boring a double row of holes, none of which however have gone right through. Of the six