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harpoon fore shaft with the obliquely cut rear end, a type which has, however, been common everywhere for the ice-hunting harpoon before Europeans opened the way for the Eskimos to the use of the round iron now in use. The relationship between the settlement find and this grave find from Malerualik is almost the same as between the Naujan and the Anangiarsuk finds; it shows the difference between the pure Thule culture and the present Central Eskimo culture as it was before it was influenced by Europeans. It shows that it cannot — at any rate not directly — have been the influence of Europeans that brought about the transition from the Thule culture to the later culture in the Central Eskimo regions.