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234 a, b, d, e); drilled holes indicate the borders of the "wings"; the cavity is cylindrical.

Pl. 75.10 is a small lamp of soapstone of the type characteristic of the Thule culture, with knobs near the front edge, a form which has already been mentioned from Kuk (fig. 79) and which is also mentioned by Boas (1907, fig. 242, from "Frozen Strait", which presumably means the north of Southampton Island); this type of lamp is not known to have been used by the last extinct Sadlermiut, and the finding place of this specimen is, unfortunately, unknown. Pl. 75.9 is a small, flat, oval bowl of soapstone, broken and bound (presumably by the finder) with sinew thread. Fig. 88 is a meat tray, formed out of a piece of a whale scapula; at the edge the thickness is 2–3½ cm, but the whole of the inner part of the tray is hollowed out so that there the thickness is only about 0.6 cm; the specimen is defective and has become buckled through drying. Another tray consists of the whole of the blade of a whale scapula; the head has been cut off, making the specimen trapeziform with rounded corners, 53 cm long, 48 cm broad at the bottom, 22 cm broad at the top; at the top, where the bone is thickest (up to 5 cm) it is hollowed out over an area of 25 × 32 cm, so that there is only a thin bone wall left, whereas the edges stand well out and form. the sides of the tray; the lower part, where the thickness is only about 2 cm, has not been made thinner, but the edges on the underside have been cut away.

Pl. 76.7 is a comb of a form which is not known from the older finds and seems to be fairly modern; its appearance, too, indicates that is is new. 8 is another, much older looking comb, also of ivory; scratched lines on it indicate the same markings as we know from the combs with pierced grips (Kuk Pl. 67.5 and Boas 1901, fig. 103): the large, triangular "windows" and, under them, the small, oblong, horizontal holes. A third old, little comb of ivory, 5.2 cm long, resembles in shape and ornamentation Naujan Pl. 29.2; it is ornamented. with two similar oblique lines with cross lines and also has below a row of Y-figures. A fourth, rather new looking comb is 11.1 cm long, narrow handle, and teeth only 1.2 cm long. Fig. 89–90 are other ornamented combs from Comer's collection at Ottawa.

Pl. 76.6 is one of the hair-ornaments of ivory that are peculiar to the Sadlermiut women. The plate is very thin, only 0.2 cm thick;