Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



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spikes are quadrilateral in transverse section, Wl and 10 cm. long and 8 — 

 9 mm. in extreme breadth. Like the twisters, they are furnished with a large 

 hole about 35 cm. from 

 the butt end. They are 

 probably all from Snenæs, 

 house 406 \ 



L. 3641. East shore 

 of Stormbugt, house 319. 

 Marline spike (Fig. 18 e), s^ 



127 cm. long and Г6 cm. 

 broad at the hole. Made 

 of the side of a narwhal 

 tusk; on one surface part 

 of the hollow of the tusk 

 is seen. 



L. 3713. East shore of 

 Stormbugt, in one of tents 

 belonging to the camping 

 ground. Twister (Fig. 18 o), 

 88 cm. long and 14 cm. 

 broad at the middle; the 

 hole is not placed exactly 

 at the centre. M one edge 

 there is trace of a drilled 

 hole, which bears no re- 

 lation to the twister as 

 such; probably made when 

 the material was cut out. 



L. 4024. Rypefjeldet. 

 Twister (Fig. \Sb). Some- 

 what defective at one end. 75 cm. long and 14 cm. broad. Besides the 

 usual hole near the centre there is another at one end of the specimen. 



Fig. 18. 2|s 



Bows of Whalebone. 



In the northernmost districts of West Greenland, a bent bow of 

 whalebone is found in addition to the bow-forms already mentioned. 

 It is represented in the Copenhagen Mtiseum by a few specimens 

 only. They are made of two layers which have been lashed together 

 in several places by mean of thin whalebone thongs passed through 

 holes placed in pairs; the double layer does not, however, extend to 

 the end of the bow, but only slightly beyond the bend'^. The great 

 elasticity of the whalebone has made a backing superfluous. 



1 The marline spikes No. 4025 — 26 are recorded to have been found near Rj'pe- 

 fjeldet, but as in other respects confusion has evidently' taken place as regards 

 objects from these two finds, owing to the death of the collector, L. Mvlius- 

 Erichsen, I do not hesitate to refer these objects to the same set; they are 

 all of them similarly weathered, and all are furnished with quite an unusually 

 large hole. 



- Cf. Birket-Smith II, p. 21 et seq., Fig. 3; another bow, now in Stockholm, is 

 depicted by A. E. Nordenskioi.d, p. 481. 



