Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 449 



From the same locality we have the fragment XXIV, 5, which has 

 been ground off at the edges to serve some further use ^ 



Bowls and other vessels of various sizes have also been used for 

 storing provisions, or as receptacles for small objects which might 

 be damaged if left lying about. This last was evidently the purpose 

 for which the finer type of vessel shown in Fig. 36 (L. 4015) was 

 intended. It is small, mea- 

 suringatthe rim 102 x 6"1, 

 height 33 cm., and neatly 

 carved from one piece of 

 walrus tusk. It was found 

 in a house at Rypefjeldet ^ 

 A specimen of exactly the 

 same sort is preserved in 



our National Museum, where it forms part of a collection consisting 

 mainly of finds from West Greenland, its precise locality of origin 

 is, however, not known. 



Another bowl carefully cut from a solid block, this time of wood, 

 L. 3824 (PI. XXIV, 8), was found in house 406 at Snenæs, mentioned 

 in the foregoing (pp. 373 et seqq.). Its shape is approximately that 

 of a boat, almost pointed at the ends, 21 cm. long, 7-5 broad and 

 35 high; the walls are quite thin. We have in this case definite 

 information as to the purpose for which the article was intended; it 

 contained, when found, 14 weapon-points of slate. The grave find 

 at Cape Franklin includes a similar vessel put to a like use.^ 



In the same house at Snenæs were found the remains of another 

 wooden bowl, similar in shape, but larger, thicker, and less finely 

 worked (L. 3825). The bottom must have been at least 18 x 11 cm., 

 but the sides slope sharply outward, the rim of the bowl at its end 

 extending 105 cm. beyond the bottom, so that the original length 

 would have been about 39 cm. Bowls of hollowed wood are repre- 

 sented in previous finds from North-east Greenland by a specimen 

 of entirely similar form, albeit somewhat heavier at the ends, from 



^ Fragments of cooking vessels have been found at the following places; Eskimo- 

 næsset, several fragments of two vessels at least, viz. L. 3108 (XXIV, 3) and 3109; 

 Maroussia, two fragments from different places, viz. L. 3355 (XXIV, 6) and L. 3376 

 (XXIV, 7); Renskæret, corner of a vessel from house 130, L. 3406; East shore of 

 Stormbugt two pieces, viz. L. 3629 (XXIV, 5) and L. 3682, and Snenæs in house 

 406 a few fragments probably of one vessel, L. 3766 (XXIV, 4). 



2 One of the houses 522 — 24. In these houses Mylius-Erichsen made a nice find 

 of bone articles, closely related to those found in Snenæs, house 406. On the 

 decease of the finder, all further information as to this interesting find was 

 unfortunately lost. ^ Nathorst, p. 364; Stolpe, PI. VI, Fig. 19. 



