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button of ivory, on one side an eye, on the other an ornament (Pl. 72.17. P4. 70), Further, a small bone point, an indeterminable flint blade, a broken slate blade, 6 indeterminable bone objects, 2 stumps of wood and 340 animal bones. A sample taken home contained, according to M. A. Degerbøl's classification: Fox 11, bear 1, caribou 6, bowhead whale 2, white whale 1, walrus 2, small seal 14.
House ruin XVII. Ruin XVI was the only undisturbed house in the lower group; all the others were wholly or partly destroyed by the Eskimos having the year before taken turf, stones and whale bones for rebuilding the four autumn houses. House XVII was the least disturbed, but a lot of turf had been removed. It has been fairly large, has had three platforms and the doorway facing NE.; the total length was 7.6 metres, the breadth, from doorway to rear wall, 4.9 metres; the length of the doorway was 3.7, the breadth 0.5 m. The interior was very much collapsed although some of the platform. edge-stones were still in position.
In it were found: the cut-off shaft end of a harpoon head of ivory of Thule type. A harpoon head of C. Dorset type (like Pl. 72.2), of ivory, slightly defective, the surface very decayed, 5.7 cm long. The small toy harpoon head of ivory Pl. 72.15 (P4. 264), same type as found in House III (Pl. 67.2). A broken fore end of a foreshaft for a harpoon, 15 cm long, of ivory. The drilled-off end of a rather heavy loose harpoon foreshaft, likewise of ivory, rounded-quadrangular in section; the rear end has the merest indication of a tap but is otherwise rounded and tapered, slightly flat; it seems to have been pierced by two holes 7–8 cm from the rear end but has been drilled off here. A finger rest (tikagut) for a harpoon shaft, of ivory, 4 cm long, 2.4 cm broad at the bottom, becoming narrower towards the top, while at the end it has been hollowed out to a saddle shape. A loose lance head like Naujan Pl. 6.8, of antler, 9.6 cm long but rather defective; the lashing about the shaft socket has not passed through holes, however, but has lain in a sunk belt. Two arrow heads of antler, one with a defective fore end, the rear end conical with two knobs at unequal heights, the other with a bone blade, without barbs, the rear end broken. Three fragments of arrow shafts. A side prong for a bird dart, of whalebone, 12.7 cm long, with two rather faint barbs turning inwards. A small leister prong, of antler, 10.4 cm long, with one powerful barb and rear end cut obliquely. Four trout needles, of which one, 18 cm long, is of a thin leg bone, one, 12.2 cm long, is of ivory, rather thin, and the other two of caribou leg bone, one 12.2 cm long, the other broken. A flint blade with rather broad tang is appar-