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kin, but with its suspension hole has presumably been used as a pendant. The use of 17 (L 7606) is also uncertain — a small toggle of ivory, flat on the underside and arched on the upper side, which is decorated with bone pegs inserted. A broken bear tooth has a hole in the root end, and a musk ox fore tooth has been used as a bead. A bird figure, made out of walrus molar, has the usual flat underside and hole in the rear end; it is not ornamented (the specimens from Comer's Midden are on the whole strikingly poor in ornamentation): the head is broken off.

Pl. 78.16 (L 7603) is a female figure of wood; the abdomen is slightly prominent and the breasts are indicated; as usual the face is a flat plane; the hair dressing is indicated, a similar knot at the back Image missingFig. 102.Ajagaq. Comers Midden. 1:2. like that still worn by the Polar Eskimos, also resembling the dressing on the bird figures with human fore-bodies (Pl. 57.11). The boots only seem to reach up to the knee. Two other wooden figures are more roughly fashioned; they seem to be males, with no face, breasts or other indications of sex, the arms just indicated; one of them seems to have boots which reach a little above the knee.

Fig. 102 (L 7757, "Excavations at Thule") is an ajagaq, formed of the scapula of a large seal; in the middle of one edge are two suspension holes; in the lower end one hole has been drilled, in the upper two, both of which debouch into the side-edges. Of the various indeterminable objects of bone and wood may be mentioned Pl. 78.18 (L 7617), of antler, with a deep longitudinal groove; at one end two blunt points; the other end shows a fracture. Two specimens resemble the implements Naujan Pl. 34.3–4, but are more roughly made. Two thin wood slabs resemble in shape the arrow cutting-boards of the Iglulik Eskimos, but they have no marks of cuts. From layer C came the bottom of a small wooden box, 10.0 × 4.4 cm, which has been put together with wooden nails; a piece of a thin wood board has bone edging, fastened on with wooden nails.

Wissler says (p. 156) about the collection in New York from Comer's Midden, that "a large percentage of the objects from Comer's site are made of whalebone". This is true to a still greater extent of the collection in Copenhagen; of the 206 specimens from the old layers C and D, no less than 133 are of baleen. Most of these