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specimen is of whalebone, a broken end 2.9 cm broad with 2 pairs of faint notches. Of other hunting implements there are only a trout needle of ivory and a very small bone arrow head, 5 cm long, cut off obliquely at the rear and with a small blade slit; presumably a toy.
An adze head of whalebone, 16 cm long, greatest breadth (at the middle) 6.5 cm, flat, slightly curved; on the underside of the neck is a small sunk and notched patch for the shaft; the lashing has run through six vertical holes arranged in 3 longitudinal rows; on the upper side these holes are connected by grooves. The blade socket is broken; around the fore end is a sunk belt, 4½ cm wide, covered with notches presumably for a reinforcing lashing.
A large wedge of whalebone and a very small one of antler. Four whetting stones of dark-grey slate, 9.3–7.6 cm long, three of them rather flat, all of them ground on all four sides. A fragment of a flint flaker of walrus rib. A fragment of an ulo handle like Qilalukan Pl. 51.3. A large fragment of a gneiss slab, 1.8 cm thick, and a smaller fragment of a lime-stone slab, 1.2 cm thick, both caked with soot and used for cooking pots. A meat fork of walrus rib, 23 cm long, very curved, flat at the back, round at the fore end, pointed. A tube of bird bone, 9.2 cm long, 1.1 cm in diameter; a tooth pendant (fox canine tooth); an oval ivory button, 4 cm long, with one flat and one rounded side, pierced through the middle; on each side of this hole on the rounded side a double row of dots has been bored; a small carving in slate (Pl. 72.16. P4. 814). In addition, 8 indeterminable bone objects, a broken flint blade and a fairly thick, slightly curved stick of wood with rounded ends, 11 cm long. Six pieces of flint waste and 270 animal bones (not counted in the eastern platform space, where, owing to the frost, the excavation was not carried through to the bottom).
House ruin IX. Prior to excavation appeared as a flat, moss-filled hollow, 3½ m in diameter, from which the doorway led. Excavation showed the interior to be completely collapsed; in the middle of the house were found remnants of the floor paving; otherwise no large stones or whale bones were found; the cultural deposit was only 30–35 cm thick. This house is apparently very old (like VI).
In it were found: An unfinished harpoon head of Thule type 3, of whalebone (Pl. 68.2. P4. 328), of similar hexagonal section to Pl. 69.3. The open shaft socket has been formed by drilling, the blade slit not yet cut. A broken harpoon head of Thule type 2, of antler, with a very long blade; later used as a wedge, 8.2 cm long. (Pl. 68.1. P4. 326). A broken, unfinished, specimen of a similar harpoon head (?). A fragment of an arrow head of antler without barbs; a