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who became extinct in 1902. Of the figured objects Pl. 75.4 and Pl. 76.3 are known to be from Tunirmiut, Pl. 74.1, 2, 5, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Pl. 75.1, 3 and 6, and Pl. 76.1, 2 and 7 from the south coast of the island; regarding the remaining specimens, nothing is known as to where they were found.

Pl. 74.1 is a very fine harpoon head of ivory with flint blade lashed on with sinew thread; this harpoon head belongs to a type which was characteristic of the later Eskimos (compare Boas 1907, fig. 248 a–e), very flat, with closed shaft socket and two powerful dorsal spurs; for the lashing of the flint blade there is a deep groove on the back, cut by means of drilling. 2 is a rather smaller harpoon head of the same type, with an iron blade inserted in a slit. Another specimen of this type has, at the base of the shaft socket, a pair of holes for a reinforcing lashing, a third has, besides this pair of holes, an open shaft socket and two pairs of holes for holding a lashing round it. 3 illustrates the second main form of the later Sadlermiut harpoon heads, a form that is also known from the later ruins of the Kuk find (Pl. 67.2), although this has an open shaft socket; this harpoon head is of ivory and has the same pair of holes at the base of the shaft socket as is so frequently found on the harpoons of the Sadlermiut; this type is also known from Boas 1907, fig. 248 g–i. A harpoon head which was brought to me by Eskimos at Iglulik and which was said to have come from Southampton Island, is of the same type as Pl. 65.5. 4 is a small harpoon head of the Cape Dorset type; it is of ivory and the blade slit is at right angles to the line hole; the oblong shaft socket is open, with a slot to one side (compare Jenness 1925, fig. 2 b, which is also from Southampton Island). Of harpoon heads in Comer's collection (at Ottawa) one resembles Thule type 3, but has a flat for a blade at right angles to the line hole — a type that is rare in the Central regions but fairly common among the Polar Eskimos.^[1]

Pl. 75.1 is a heavy, moveable foreshaft for a harpoon, also of a rather new type; it is of ivory, oval in section and round towards the point; the shaft end is distended just before it terminates in a rounded, blunt cone; it is pierced by two holes at right angles to each other and a different heights. A similar foreshaft, 28 cm long, terminates at the shaft end in a short tap and is pierced by three holes, 2 parallel and, between them, one at right angles to them. Two small, fixed foreshafts of ivory, 6.9 and 7.6 cm long, are cut off square at the shaft end like Qilalukan Pl. 41.3.

Pl. 74.11 is a piece of a small swivel for the harpoon line; 12 is a stopper (?) for the harpoon line (compare Boas 1907, fig. 257), of ivory, ornamented; 13 is a mouthpiece for a harpoon bladder, of