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whilst the fore end forms a flat, fairly sharp beak. A tube of thin bird bone, 10 cm long, is possibly a sucking tube (compare Naujan Pl. 28.16); a piece of whalebone, very much decayed, resembles in shape a thread reel; it is 8.1 cm long, 2.7 broad, rectangular in section; it is thickest at the middle, and from there it tapers evenly towards both ends, each of which ends in two points. A piece of antler, 19 cm long, is flat on one side, rounded on the other, with three transversal grooves; a thin piece of bone mounting with 3 holes; a large, broken piece of whalebone, pierced by four holes and on one side, between the pairs of holes, an elongated hollow for a shaft or something similar which was lashed on.
Thirteen indeterminable objects of bone, fragments of shafts, etc., including a heavy, broken, board of whalebone, 28 × 7½ × 2½ cm, a hole in one end; a wooden stick, a piece of baleen, a piece of rock crystal, two large pieces of mica, 40 pieces of flint waste and 2750 animal bones.
House ruin VIII. Gave the impression of being fairly new; the doorway preserved. Two platforms, each 3.2 m in diameter; in the corner between them a store room. The entire interior of the house was filled with large stones from the collapsed roof, from the partly fallen in walls and platforms. In the best preserved room, that to the west, in which almost all the specimens were found, the three platforms were still fairly well preserved; in the middle of the room was a regular, paved floor; in the rear wall a whale skull. Frost and snow water made the excavation rather difficult.
In this house were found: An unfinished, very flat harpoon head of the same type as Pl. 67.2, 7 cm long. A socket piece for a harpoon shaft, of ivory, of the same sort as those used nowadays (Anangiarsuk, Pl. 38.3), 5.1 cm long. A hole bored transversely through the lower socket, while round the upper socket lead two grooves, formed by drilling, to reinforce the lashing; the specimen is broken here. A cut-off piece of a knife-handle or a lance head, 9.7 cm long, 3.2 cm broad, with a blade in the side. An unfinished lance head of ivory, 18½ cm long; its shape is mostly like Naujan Pl. 6.5 but it lacks the longitudinal groove and the blade slit has not been cut yet; in front of the tang, at each side, are three broad notches which apparently originate from its having previously been used as a knife handle. Two fragments of bows; one is of antler, 24 cm long, flat, 3.4–2.9 cm wide, the breadth decreasing evenly towards the end, which is fitted with a nock for the string; in the other end are two holes; for the last 16 centimetres the edge has seven pairs of not very deep notches which have served to hold the sinew backing. The other