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A fragment of a whetting stone, rectangular in section, is of a fine grain sandstone.

Of sledges there is a broken cross-bar ("excavation at Thule"), of whalebone, 35 cm long, 6 cm wide, narrow towards the end, which widens out again; the thickness is about 2 cm; on the underside is a flat hollow for the runner; in the broken end are two holes. Of sledge shoes of whalebone there are only fragments; several have wooden nails. Pl. 79.4 (L 7737) is a large piece of sledge shoe of baleen; the thickness is about 0.9 cm; there are other six smaller pieces of baleen shoes, in one of which there are two wooden nails. A trace buckle of whalebone is 6 cm long and it has a large and a smaller hole and a groove for the thong.

The only ulo handle in the collection is of whalebone and very closely resembles Qilakukan Pl. 50.2; it is 7.1 cm long and has a blade socket 0.4 cm wide, presumably for a stone blade; similar ulo handles are known from Comer's collection (Wissler fig. 15 a).

Pl. 78.12 (L 7600) is a thimble holder of ivory, ornamented with drilled holes on both sides; it is a type (the "anchor shaped") which is not known from the old Central Eskimo finds; these are however extremely poor in thimble holders.

Pl. 78.15 (L 7590) is a toy lamp of soapstone with the same ridge near the front edge that we know from toy lamps at Qilalukan; on this the ridge is higher, narrow and not broken at the ends. Another toy lamp, made out of a piece of a cooking pot, is unfinished.

Of soapstone cooking pots there are four shards (all from "Ex cavations at Thule"), all of roundish vessels; one is of a fairly thick cooking pot, at least 14 cm high, with a rather flat bottom and the wall 1.4–2.4 cm thick; another fragment is of a small, rather low pot or bowl with rounded bottom and suspension hole in the edge; the breadth seems to have been about 10 cm. There is also a shard of a still flatter soapstone bowl with a flat bottom, but otherwise of the same size and shape as the foregoing.

Pl. 78.11 (L 7597) is the handle and part of the bowl of a flat spoon of musk ox horn. Two oval wooden bottoms for bowls are 25 and 11 cm long respectively; the largest is from C. Two wooden sticks. have been used for fire boring.

Pl. 78.13 (L 8820, layer C) is a comb of ivory, resembling in shape the handsome comb from Dunholm, North-east Greenland^[1] and, like that one, must presumably be regarded as being a very conventionalised human figure; 14 (L 7599) is a very rough comb of a curved piece of antler, with very short teeth.

Pl. 78.8 (L 7598) is of antler, oval in section; it looks like a bod-