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spur and no barbs and without separately inserted blade; the material is antler; the shaft socket has been closed by a lashing which has passed through holes — a feature that is common to all the harpoon heads with open shaft socket from Comer's Midden; the sinew thread that is now in these holes looks new. The other specimens of this type are rather defective; one has a shoulder, as if it had had a barb. Thule type 3 is the commonest form of harpoon head in Comer's Midden, represented by six specimens, fragments and unfinished heads (Pl. 78.2 (L 7547), Wissler fig. 24 a); four of them are of antler, two of whalebone; the blade slit is fairly narrow, with a rivet hole; two pairs of holes for the lashing; an unfinished specimen is only Image missingFig. 100.Piece of Sealing Stool. Comers Midden. 1:3. 5.4 cm long. Pl. 78.3 (L 7549) is a harpoon head that is in the transition stage between the thin and the flat heads; it is of whalebone, almost round, but, like the harpoon heads of Naujan type 5, the back is the natural resting surface; in contrast to these however it has an open shaft socket and bifurcated spurs, and the line hole is bored directly from side to side; similar but more flat forms are Wissler fig. 24 c–d. Pl. 78.4 (L 8819) of antler, is more flat than the foregoing, which it otherwise resembles by the bifurcated spurs; in contrast to all other harpoon heads in this collection, however, it has a closed shaft socket; this is interesting, as this harpoon head was found in the later stratum C, whereas all the others came from D; thus it is later than the other harpoon heads from Comer's Midden, as might have been expected in view of conditions elsewhere. Pl. 78.5 (L 7687) is a peculiar, unfinished harpoon head of antler, very flat, with two line holes, cut square at the fore end, no shaft socket, but with two dorsal spurs and the whole of the shaft end covered with lashing notches. 6 (L 7551) is a small head for an Ituartit harpoon, a type that is otherwise not known from the Thule finds nor was it known earlier from the Cape York District, but well known from Angmagssalik and West Greenland;^[1] it is of antler, with blade slit; at the rear are two flat cut faces and a hole for the rivet about which it is to turn; it has had a spur, but this is now broken off; it is rather surprising to find this special Greenland