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a patch covered with crossed grooves; there are also three pairs of holes for the lashing. A snow knife blade of ivory is 15 cm long, 5.7 cm wide at the rear end, blunt; the rear end is cut square and furnished with 5 holes, from which lead grooves for the lashings. A rather thick bone blade, 21 cm long, up to 3.1 cm wide, curved, blunt, is broken at the shaft end. Two knife handles of antler, 13.8 and 12.8 cm long respectively, are oblong in section; they have a hole in the handle end, and at the fore end a flat for lashing on the blade, while the whole surface is covered with crossed notches; another broken knife handle is furnished about the middle with two opposed knobs. Three slender, unsymmetrical flint blades, 6.3–2.9 cm long, without tang, are possibly knife blades. Of bow drills there is a mouth piece (caribou astragalus), a bone shank, 9.4 cm long, pointed at the rear end and a small round socket, and two points of flint, both with a rather broad shaft end, as well as a thin but broken tip.

Pl. 72.10 (P4. 560) is a scraper; the handle is of antler, with narrow grip; in the blade socket there is a flint blade formed of a flake, one edge of which is carefully shaped as a scraping edge; it does not quite fill the blade socket, however. 9 (P4. 788) is another scraper handle of a small antler branch, on which a piece of the stem forms a convenient hand grip; in the opposite end is a blade slit, 4.2 cm long. A rounded-triangular, roughly shaped toy lamp of soapstone. Of cooking pots there is a large fragment of a soapstone pot like Qilalukan Pl. 53.10, ornamented with the same line on the rim, and the most of a large, square, soot-encrusted lime-stone slab, 22 x 17 cm, without holes, as well as several smaller shards of soapstone vessels and lime-stone slabs used for cooking pots. Pl. 72.12 (P4. 409 and 558) is a small oval soapstone slab, decorated with a groove along the edge, presumably a toy; its two halves were found in the area at some distance from each other. Three hollow, pointed tips of caribou leg bone, 8.2–12.5 cm long, are presumably marrow extractors. Several tooth pendants of seal and fox canines. An ivory bird with human fore-body; the arms sloping downwards, the head with a similar, peculiar "hair dressing" to that met with at Naujan and Qilalukan (Pl. 57.11); the specimen is unornamented, 3.8 cm long. Pl. 72.3 (P4. 717) seems to have originally been a toy ajagaq of similar form to Pl. 69.15, but has later been pierced by two large horizontal holes, from which grooves lead out to the edges. It seems to have been used as a finger rest or something like that.

Pl. 72.5–7 (P4. 850, 273 and 484) are three fragments of ornamented plates of ivory. 5 shows the stern of a kayak with the harpoon bladder, and behind this is a rather sharply bent up stem, which can scarcely be other than a women's boat; the stem and stern of a kayak