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an attempt at imitating this form in caribou leg bone, but the more difficult material has made the form more blurred: the tang lacks the knobs, the barb is less sharp, the whole form irregular; Pl. 82.8 (P 12.85) is one of these bone arrow heads. Of arrow heads without barbs there are four specimens, all rather small (7.7–11.5 cm), with conical tang and two knobs and without particularly widened blade; the strong arrow heads with widened blade, known for instance from Qilalukan (Pl. 42.10) and now generally used by the present-day Central Eskimos, do not occur at all in the Malerualik find.

2. Large arrow heads with inserted blade. Only one unfinished, defective specimen; the head is distended; the rear end defective but seems to have been cut off obliquely. Length 15.4 cm.

3. Smaller arrow heads. Eight specimens have one barb; two of them are of antler, one of which has a conical tang (Pl. 82.9. P 12. 72), whilst the other has a wedge-shaped shaft end. The others are of leg bone, thin, roughly made, with lengths from 8.9 to 11.3 cm. They have presumably been used for birds.

4. Blunt arrow heads. Pl. 84.8 (P 12. 67) has a wedge-shaped shaft end and a broad, flat, blunt point, possibly a toy. Another, 14.7 cm long, defective at both ends, tapers gradually from back to fore end.

5. Bird harpoon. Pl. 82.10 (P 12. 216) is a loose arrow head with four powerful barbs, conical shaft end and line hole, presumably used as a sort of bird harpoon to be shot from a bow.

Six thin shafts, five of them of antler, one of whalebone, have scarf faces, at both ends on four of them, while two are defective. One is 26 cm long.

Side prongs for bird darts. Pl. 82.11 (P. 12. 84) is a curved point, defective at both ends, presumably a side prong for a bird dart; it is almost round and has a barb on each side divided into a number of smaller barbs by transversal notches; longitudinal grooves separate the barbs from the stem. A broken point is possibly of a similar side prong; on both sides of the point, on the edge, there is a number of notches and at a barb further down the specimen is broken over.

Throwing board. A specimen very much resembles Naujan Pl. 33.16, but is longer (6.8 cm), i. e. the shaft end with scarf face; possibly this is peg for a throwing board.

Bola balls. Three specimens, all formed by cutting an antler and smoothing the edges; two have holes at one side (Pl. 83.5. P 12. 158), the third, which is longer, has the hole at one end.

Gull hook. Pl. 82.12 (P 12. 199) is a splinter of leg bone, pointed at both ends and a notch at the middle for a line; apparently the same implement as Qilalukan Pl. 43.10.