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with small gravel, which were built of flat stones not well suited for 

 tent stones. A kayak was represented in the following manner; 

 first a row of stones was laid out (cf. 336, fig. 13) in form almost 

 like the keel of a kayak and in the centre of this a circle was then 

 made to represent the opening or well; thus the well came to lie in 

 the wrong direction, a mistake to which we can readily find parallels 

 in the first attempts at drawing of our own children. At one place 

 the figure represented a vertical section through a kayak with the 

 kayak man (cf. (539, fig. 13). In the neighbourhood of playthings 

 made of flat stones, there was often found an ordinary, rounded 

 boulder which has probably been used as a sort of stool. 



Later in appearance 

 seemingly are two small 

 stone-rings ' (cf. 420 and 

 688, fig. 13) formed of or- 

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wells, from which the 

 children have exercised 

 themselves in casting the 

 spear and lance. The re- 

 mainder of the kayak has 

 thussimply been imagined. 

 The collections of pieces of 

 white quartz in the neigh- 

 bourhood of settlements 

 alsocame possibly, as men- 

 tioned above, from child- 

 ren's games in some cases 

 (329—339—742). 



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Fig. 13. Remains of children's playthings. 

 To the left is a schematic outline of the figure the play- 

 thing is supposed to represent. (Sketch \>y the author;. 



Boat rests for the women's boat and kayak, cairns, a 

 depot-house and several others will be discussed more closely 

 under the separate settlements; yet it may be remarked here, that 

 in North-East Greenland three ^' pillars have usually been made 

 for each set of rests of women's boat and kayak; the reasons for 

 this are possibly, that the women's boats owing to the lack of suit- 

 able material have not been so solidly built and that the kayaks 

 used have been of unusual length, to judge from the measurements 

 of the rests. 



' Cf. Koldkwey: I, p. Г)64 and Ryder: pp. 302—03. 



- Cf. Holm 1: p. 160; P.arrv: p. 506 and Amlndsen: pp. 23!), 219 illustr. 



