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sider below. С. В. Thostrup, in the place cited, describes it as 

 follows: 



"Winter-house 406 had two small annexes at the front wall, which 

 were mostly filled up with remains of bones. The platform was con- 

 structed of gravel; on the floorplace there were flat stones and the bottom 

 of the passage lay lower than the floor. Above the innermost, flat, covering 

 stone of the passage there was a recess with a triangular opening in towards 

 the house. The measurements of the oi)ening were: along the base 0-37; the 

 sides 0-32 and 024 M." 



A ground plan of the house is given in the same work PI. II. 



A number of ornamental objects and small figures from this 

 house are illustrated in my PI. XI. 2—14, viz. Nos. 7 — 9, three bone 

 pendants; 10, eight long cylindrical bone beads; 11, a pierced tooth 

 similar to those found in grave 321 on the east shore of Stormbugt 

 (cf. PI. VII, 13); 12, a boot-shaped pendant ornament of bone; 13, a 

 black stone pendant, with one side flattened (cf. PI. VII, 15); 14, a coni- 

 cal pendant of mottled green stone. Besides these there are several bone 

 figures, viz. Nos. 2—3, representing swimming birds, both flattened on 

 their under sides, so as to stand, but provided in addition \vith a hole 

 at their rear end for suspension; a third specimen is not figured; 

 4 — 5, seals, flat on the side reversed in picture so that they are 

 imagined lying on their backs; but, like the preceding, also 

 intended for suspension; 6, a w^man with an amaiit, the wide 

 hood distinctly shown, but the lower part of the figure less care- 

 fully executed, the legs, for instance, being separated only by a bored 

 out groove. The figures were found inside the house, immediatedly 

 to the left of the passage. 



Such small bone figures of animals, adapted for suspension, and 

 flattened below, so that Ihey can also stand or lie down, are known 

 from North-east Greenland in Amdrup's find from Cape Tobin (70° 24' 

 N. lat.) and in the find from Rypefjeldet brought home by the Dan- 

 mark Expedition, but, as far as I know% they have not been found 

 in West Greenland. Very closely related to this East Greenland 

 group is a find consisting of some ten small figures representing 

 seals, bears, etc., obtained together with some other miniature objects 

 by the Sverdrup Expedition in June 1902 at Stenkuls Fjord, Kong 

 Oskars Land (about 71^i-i° N. lat.).i 



BoAS'^ informs us regarding a similar set from Cumberland 

 Sound that they were there used for a kind of game, tingmiujang 

 (i. e. images of birds), in which they were thrown as dice. Mur- 



' In the Museum in Christiania, Nos. Г2400 — 16 and 12429- 35; Sverdrup, vol. II, 

 p. 494. Tiie}' were lying closely together, as if they had been contained in a bag. 

 - Boas 1, p. 567. 



