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same shape, with flat back, and the same colour as the one above 

 described; it is 2 cm. high, (PI. XI, 13); the other, (L. 3761) which 

 is 21 cm. high, is conical in shape, with convex base, fashioned 

 from a handsome kind of spotted stone (PI. XI, 14). This drop has 

 been worn so long that the original hole was nearly worn through, 

 and another has therefore been pierced lower down. Of the bone 

 drop ornaments, the one (L. 3754) is broad pear-shaped, 1"1 cm. high 

 and 1*2 cm. broad (PI. XI, 8) another, (L. 3755) which is Г4 cm. long, 

 is slender (PI. XI, 9), resembling somewhat in shape that shown in 

 PI. VII, 14. 



In house 134 at Renskæret was found a small, almost heart- 

 shaped bone pendant (L. 3560), only Г5 cm. high, the ring of which 

 is now broken through (PI. XXV, 13). Similarly small in size, Г4 cm., 

 but in shape more resembling PI. XI, 9, is the bone drop shown in 

 PI. XXV, 12, from one of the winter houses 522 — 24 at Rypefjeldet. 

 It has lost its ring; the split noticeable at the bottom is hardly in- 

 tentional, but rather due to the material. From the same find, we 

 have a pear-shaped drop Г4 cm. long (L. 4006), which may or may 

 not originally have had a ring; also two large bone drops (PI. XXV, 

 10 — 11) 3*4 and 33 cm. high, both rough and unpolished (L. 4004 

 and 4003). From house 406 at Snenæs there is also a small drop 

 ornament 2 cm. high (L. 3753), shaped like a leg or a boot (PI. 

 XI, 12). 



All the drop ornaments hitherto described, whether of stone or 

 bone, have one feature in common ; the hole bored for the string is 

 run transversely through at the upper end of the drop, sometimes 

 carved out into a distinct ring. It is otherwise with the bone drop 

 shown in PI. XI, 7, from house 406 at Snenæs (L. 3756). Here, the 

 hole is pierced from the top obliquely through to one side under 

 the raised collar; it would have thus have been held by a knot in 

 one end of the string. The specimen is 1*5 cm. high. 



A cylindrical bone bead, 2*9 cm. long and roughly cut (PI. XXV, 

 14), ornamented with three bands (L. 4007), is from the houses at 

 Rypefjeldet. It is perhaps doubtful whether this formed part of any 

 personal ornament; it resembles mostly the beads used by the Eskimos 

 of Angmagsalik for ornamentation of whip-lashes. The large diameter 

 of the bore, 6 — 7 mm., would also seem to point in this direction. 



The two bone plates with peculiar ornamentation, shown in 

 PI. XI, 1 (L. 3805 from Snenæs) and PI. XXV, 19 (L. 4016 from Ry- 

 pefjeldet) have been dealt with in the foregoing. A similar spec- 

 imen from a grave find ^ indicates these as belonging to the class 



^ Nathorst, p. 364. 



