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tooth pendants in the find three are of white whale teeth (one of them, P4. 679, will be seen on Pl. 69.17), two are the fore teeth of bears, one is the canine tooth of a dog.
Pl. 69.12 (P4. 515) is one of the usual bird figures of ivory with a flat underside; there is a protuberance at the root of the beak (king duck?) while on the back the wings, feet and tail are indicated by dots. 13 (P4. 750) has a longer beak (loon?) and the more stylish ornamentation familiar from Naujan on the back: an oval double row from which other double rows radiate towards the edge; it has also a double row in the rear end. On another, smaller bird figure this ornamentation is more blurred, while a larger figure, 3.5 cm long at the base, has large drilled holes irregularly distributed over the whole of the back except along the middle line. 11 (P4. 676) is a large, unornamented bird which, instead of the pointed bird's head has a round head with the front flat — presumably a human head, which is most often represented in this manner without carved features; both these last two birds have a hole in the rear end.
Pl. 69.15 (P4. 675) is an ajagaq of ivory; the back is rather ridged and the underside rather hollow; the fore end is triangular in section and has a hole, while from the rear end of the underside five holes run right through to the upper side of the back, which is rather broad and, at the lower part, has a bridge which closes round the lowest hole. The sides are ornamented with longitudinal lines and drilled holes of various sizes. In the back is a suspension hole, which has been broken, whereupon another hole has been drilled alongside it. The shape of the figure, especially the back end, suggests a very ambitious bear figure (compare Pl. 57.9). 20 (P4.517) is a walrus molar used as nuglutang; it is rather flat, rounded at both ends; besides the suspension hole it has been drilled with three large holes in one direction and five in the other; some of these holes overlap each other.
From this house ruin there still remain to be mentioned some specimens the use of which is uncertain; some of them are shown in Pl. 69.18 (P4. 757) is a broken piece of ivory, rather flat, arched, with an end resembling the tail of a whale; it is broken at a small eye. 19 (P4. 754) has large drilled holes in both ends; possibly it has been used as a mouthpiece for a bow drill, but it is much smaller than these usually are 21 (P4. 644) is a piece of a thin, fairly solid rib, in one end with a flat beak and, a little way from this, two notches in the edge; it resembles the specimens from Naujan Pl. 34.3–4 and, like these, is possible an ajagaq stick. Another specimen is possibly a fragment of a similar implement; it is of ivory, 5.3 cm long, 1.5 wide; the whole of the rearmost end consists of a scarf face with lashing notches,