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ently for an arrow, and a fragment of a large, broad flint blade is presumably for a harpoon or a lance.

The broken end of a sledge cross bar of whalebone, 6½ cm broad, with only one groove for the lashing. A broken snow knife handle of whalebone, with bilateral knob at the end (like Naujan Pl. 15.2) and at any rate one shoulder; the broken end of a snow knife blade, of whalebone, greatest length 4.1 cm. A broken knife handle with a flat for a flint blade, and a fragment of whittling knife handle like Naujan Pl. 22.2. An adze head like Naujan Pl. 20.6, but narrower and without the vertical holes; three horizontal holes through the neck; 12.8 cm long. A fragment of a mattock blade like Naujan Pl. 21.5. Two wedges of antler. A flat, four-sided ground whetting stone of mica slate and a very flat little whetting stone of slate. A broken drill point of flint. A broken scraper of caribou scapula. A small, flat, irregularly shaped piece of antler, 6.3 cm long, 5.1 broad, has a groove, 3.6 cm long, in one edge and is apparently the handle of a small ulo or scraper. A large, rather hollow piece of natural lime-stone has numerous remains of blubber on the inside and is presumably a fragment of a lamp. An oblong piece of soapstone, 8 cm long, fairly thick, with an oval hollow, is presumably a toy lamp. Eleven small shards are of indeterminable soapstone vessels, 1.5 to 0.7 cm thick. A small carving in soapstone, 3,8 cm long, is formed like a drill point (Qilalukan Pl. 49.11). A small piece of an oval wooden bottom for a bowl and another flat oval wooden piece, 6.9 cm long. A pierced bear tooth; a tooth pendant of fox canine tooth; a tube of a thick bird bone, 4.3 cm long. A broken ajagaq of ivory, triangular in section, two holes in the sharp back-edge, on the underside three deep, slanting holes, one of which goes through to the back; 6.4 cm long. Pl. 72.13 (P4. 144) is presumably the stick of an ajagaq; it is of ivory, the rear end broken off; a groove running round it forms a hold for the cord; both sides are ornamented, one being seen on the figure, the other decorated with longitudinal lines and close, small, slightly oblique lines. 14 (P4. 171) is a small object carved out of ivory; in the slightly bent rear end there is a hole; the object, which is apparently a toy, resembles the paddle of a women's boat, although the blade is rather pointed.^[1] Is this evidence that the Southampton Island Eskimos have once known the women's boat? Nothing definite can be built upon this specimen, which might also represent a one-bladed kayak paddle.

There were also found in this ruin: a walrus tusk, 38 cm long, pointed at the tip and pierced at the root; twelve fragments of shafts and other indeterminable bone objects, 3 worked wooden objects,