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of Naujan type 5, of antler, 6.2 cm long, and two large pieces of ulo blades of slate.
From the house ruins at Isertigardjuk there is a leister prong of whalebone, 13.6 cm long, with one powerful barb turning inwards, the shaft end cut obliquely and with 2 holes for the lashing; a whetting stone of mica slate and an implement just like Naujan Pl. 34.6, of bone, 6.6 cm long. From Duke of York Bay there is also the meat fork Pl. 75.5; it is of ivory, curved, round, a little flat at the point; the rear end has a knob which extends to the side; a little way from this is an eye and, opposite the eye, two longitudinal shoulders, separated by a groove.
Besides the already described objects from Duke of York Bay I acquired through the Eskimos a collection — about 200 specimens — found at the dwellings of the extinct Sadlermiut. The information. about these objects is often very defective; of most of them it is only known that they have come from Southampton Island; others are known to be from the south coast and a few from Tunirmiut, the last settlement of the Sadlermiut. This collection thus forms no collective whole; although most of the objects seem, from their form and appearance, to originate from the fairly recently inhabited settlements on the south coast, the collection includes objects from various localities and of greatly different ages, which as a matter of fact the appearance of the objects indicates. Only this may be said of them all, that they have come down from the original inhabitants of the island. This heterogeneous collection will not be described in its entirety; only those specimens which yield anything new beyond what is known from the material collected by Comer and described by Boas, or what has already been mentioned from the Kuk find, will be referred to in detail.
Professor F. Boas has been so exceedingly kind as to lend us a number of drawings of hitherto unpublished objects belonging to Comer's collection from Southampton Island, now in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the National Museum of Canada at Ottawa. Also of these only those will be mentioned which contribute something new to the elucidation of the culture of the Sadlermiut.
Pl. 74–76 and figs. 88 and 91 show a number of specimens belonging to the collection from Southampton Island which was acquired from the Eskimos; most of them are typical of the Sadlermiut