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the Thule types and the broken-off rear end of a flat harpoon head, with 2 dorsal spurs and open shaft socket. An unfinished harpoon head like Pl. 69.4 or 5. Pl. 72.2 (P4. 295) is a small harpoon head of ivory of the Cape Dorset type, which was also met with at Button Point, Ponds Inlet (Pl. 61.21); it has a narrow, rectangular shaft socket. A defective piece of a similar harpoon head was, as already stated, found in house XVII; the rear end has a scarf face for the Image missingFig. 80.Piece of Snow-shovel. Kuk. 13. lashing and two holes; the specimen is thickest where this face begins, 2.5 cm. A small fragment of a tubular socket piece for a harpoon shaft like Naujan Pl. 3.12. A small fragment of a heavy harpoon shaft has longitudinal grooves like the lance head Naujan Pl. 6.4. Pl. 72.11 (P4. 744) is a heavy lance head or knife handle, of whalebone, with sockets in the sides for blades; in section it is flat-rhombic; in the fore end is a deep slit and two holes for a blade; in one edge 4, in the other 5 small sockets for blades; the rear end rather pointed and furnished with lashing notches and a hole for the lashing. A flint blade, 3.7 cm long, 2.3 cm broad, with broad tang, is apparently for a harpoon or a lance. A broken, triangular, facetted slate blade is 6.2 cm long; a similar one, small, with a hole, is 2.6 cm. A slender, four-sided wound plug with a fairly large head, 10.1 cm long. The broken end of a thin whalebone shaft with distended point, just like Naujan Pl. 16.5 (snow probe?). Pl. 72.4 (P4. 211) is a fine, slender bird harpoon head of antler, a blade slit at the fore end, with 4 slender barbs, a shaft socket and long spur. The end of a bone arrow shaft, with a nock for the string. A bola ball, consisting of a rounded lump, 3½ cm long, cut from the root-end of an antler and with a stalk 3½ cm long, near the tip of which is the hole. The broken end of a side prong for a salmon spear like Naujan Pl. 12.4, although without its cross groove. A fragment, 0.8 cm thick, of a sledge shoe of whalebone, with 4 peg holes and 3 loose pegs of antler, about 3 cm long. Fig. 80 (P4.842) is a piece of the upper end of a snow shovel blade of whale scapula; some of the hollow for the blade can be seen, as well as 3 holes for its lashing. Another similar fragment has no hollow for the lashing, but, instead.