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are much less steep, and besides, a kayak is not so high; it does not seem to be an animal either; one cannot be quite sure about what this is, however. The edge is ornamented with two parallel grooves. and the surface between these is divided into alternately hatched and plain blocks; the thickness is 0.9 cm. Fig. 81 shows the other side of this specimen with the bow of a kayak with a long, thin nose, following a whale, which is recognisable by the tail. 7 is thinner and on one edge has a similar ornament, the two lines on this meeting at a point; 6 has a large, hatched field and a deeply scalloped edge.

House ruin XXI is, as already stated, rather isolated from the others on a gravel plateau, 6½ m above sea level, 3–400 m north of Image missingFig. 81.Piece of Ivory, with Kayak stem. 2:3. the other ruins in the lower group. It was visible as a small hollow, 2¼ m in diameter, with three or four stones on edge as the rear wall. By its side. had been built a tower-like store room; the doorway faced NW. In the house there was only a turfy layer of soil, 10–15 cm thick, in which there were found a worked piece of bone and 73 animal bones; below this was gravel.

Eskimos brought us several objects which they had found in the lower group of houses when building the autumn houses and also later on. Among these objects there were a broken, flat harpoon head with two dorsal spurs, open shaft socket, two barbs and the blade slit parallel with the line hole; this is a fairly late, peculiar Southampton form, of which unfinished specimens have only been referred to hitherto (compare Pl. 67.2). Furthermore, a broken piece of a lance head or knife, 16 cm long, with blades in the sides; the handsomely formed salmon decoy Pl. 73.8 (P4. 885), of ivory, with carved eyes, gills, side line, dorsal, tail, pectoral, ventral and anal fins; a snow knife of whalebone, 21 cm long, rather curved, with a blade 5 cm wide, one shoulder and unilateral knob on the handle end, and a large, somewhat defective snow knife blade of whalebone like Naujan Pl. 15.4, 24 cm long, 6 cm wide at the base; a handle, 11 cm long, slender, for a whittling knife, of antler, with a small, narrow blade socket 1.2 cm long, in the end. A slightly curved piece of whalebone, 36 cm long, up to 4 cm wide, thick, with a rather narrow hand grip with unilateral knob at one end, possibly a snow beater.

Eastern House Group, about 4 m above the sea, near the beach.