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4. Short whittling knives with small end blade socket. One specimen, 10.2 cm long, flat, slightly curved, with a blade socket 1 cm long in the fore end. A knife handle, 17.5 cm long, has fairly small blade sockets in both ends.

Pl. 84.6 (P 12. 81) is like a miniature knife handle; in the fore end it has a small, fairly deep, oval blade socket; in section the handle is rectangular. Presumably a toy.

Whetting stones. A large, thick stone, ground on four sides, is of a hard basaltic rock; both ends have marks of blows. A small stone of soft, reddish rock^[1] has grinding marks on the edges and has possibly been used as a colouring stone.

Adze. A rather flat piece of antler, 13 cm long, is presumably an adze head; in one end a flat flace has been cut, and this is covered with lashing notches; the other end has a socket, but through decay a cavity has formed, going right through the specimen, so that determination becomes rather uncertain.

Wedges. Eleven specimens, of varying sizes and shapes (lengths 5 to 18 cm), most of them roughly made and bearing marks of blows. One has cross notches. In the middle of one edge of the biggest a small eye has been cut.

Drills. Pl. 84.10 (P 12. 147) is the lower end of a drill haft; the upper end is cut off obliquely and covered with lashing notches; the other end has a small blade socket (0.5 × 0.4 cm), more than 2 cm deep; an oblong socket leads from the side into it. A thin, rather curved haft, 12 cm long, has a thin blade socket in one end; the upper end is unworked, so that it must have been a hand drill. Pl. 84.7 (P 12.152) is also a hand drill, a piece of leg bone with a very thin, carefully made point.

Ulos. Pl. 84.1–3 (P12. 75, 111 and 112) show the three ulos of the find. 1 and 3 are of whalebone and are types familiar from the other Central Eskimo finds; both have very thickened handles and rather narrow blade sockets. 2 consists of a broad handle in which is inserted a narrow intermediate piece, held in the socket of the handle by two bone rivets; in the other edge of the intermediate piece there is a narrow blade slit, not very deep, which can hardly be for anything else than a metal blade; a hole has apparently served to hold the blade lashing.

Scraper of caribou scapula. 14 cm long, defective, with fairly well-made head and the ridge cut away.