Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



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Rj'peQeldet. It is made of reindeer horn, 13-2 cm. long; the lower 

 end is rounded and thinned down to an edge; at the upper, boring 

 has been commenced from both sides. It has not been smoothed at all. 



Bodkins are represented in the collection by several spec- 

 imens, including four^ from the grave at Rypefjeldet above re- 

 ferred to (PI. VII, 2—5). These were from 7—9 cm. long, all 

 more or less coarse, but carefully made. Similar to these in 

 workmanship and size is the specimen shown in PI. XI, 16, 

 (L. 3813) from house 406 at Snenæs (cf. p. 378). More sharply 

 pointed is a bodkin from house 527, Rypefjeldet, (L. 3976) shown 

 in the accompanying Fig. 39; it is 87 cm. long, and shaped with 

 an almost conical head. The sharpest of all is that shown in 

 PI. XIII, 8, from Snenæs house 406, (L. 3814). Its present length 

 is 86 cm., but the upper end is broken off. 



The grave at Rypefjeldet contained, together with the bod- 

 kins, a much shorter tool, (PI. VII, 6) only 3-1 cm. long, and 

 pierced with an eye (L. 3076). This was presumably intended 

 as a needle for drawing thread through the holes previously 

 pierced with the bodkin. 



Fig. 39. 



The comb shown in Fig. 40 was found in house 133 at Ren- 

 skæret. It is 68 cm. high, and 39 cm. across, thick at the top (7 mm) 

 diminishing evenly from there downwards, the points of the teeth 

 being quite sharp. The teeth themselves are coarse, 

 square-edged and set at wide interwals. Marks of 

 the tools used in cutting the spaces may be seen 

 far up the back of the comb. 



In shape, with the triple-curved upper edge, it 

 resembles several of the combs from Angmagsalik^, 

 but the comb from North-east Greenland is of coar- 

 ser workmanship, fashioned as it is with more pri- 

 mitive tools, whereas the thin, close-set teeth of the 

 Angmagsalik combs are produced with the aid of 

 iron implements: fine knives and the saw. 



Combs are of extremely rare occurrence in finds 

 from North-east Greenland. In addition to this spec- 

 imen, the Danmark Expedition found, in house 144 on Maroussia, 

 part of the side of a comb like this, with one end tooth remaining. 

 The piece (L. 3365) is 53 cm. long, and quite narrow. Save for this, 

 the only other specimen hitherto brought home by any expedition 

 is the beautiful and remarkable comb from Dunholm.^ 



Fig. 40. 2|з. 



1 L. 3073—74 and 3077—78. 



BiTZEU I, Figs. 55 — 56. 

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- Cf. Thalbitzer II, Figs. 331 and 333 a. 



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