Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 461 



and front of the figure. Three other figures lack the head, and being 

 executed altogether with but little regard for detail, are difficult to 

 determine. A small figure 28 cm. high in present state from house 133 

 (L. 3537) is apparently male, as also another now 4-7 high (L. 3563) 

 from house 134; it would seem to be wearing the natit and boots. 

 Altogether indeterminable is a larger figure from the same house 

 (L. 3562) ; it is fashioned from a kind of wood which flakes off a 

 great deal, so that only the lower portion of the figure is now pre- 

 served, 49 cm. long. Its breadth, however, 2*7 cm. shows it to have 

 been originally far larger than the remaining dolls. 



With these small figures we pass to the category of toys. As 

 usual among the Eskimos, most of the toys are miniature models 

 of the implements used by adults. 



From the sphere ot conveyance, the little trace buckles for dog 

 harness (PI. XXV, 22 — 23) have been described in the foregoing (p. 418) 

 as also the small wooden kayak shown in PI. XXV, 5 (p. 418—19). 



Of weapons, the bow is represented by a fragment, 11*7 cm. long 

 from one end (PI. XX, 25) found in shelter 565 at Rypefjeldet (L. 4113)! 



Fig. 42. 1/2. 



At the top may be seen the horn round which the loop of the string 

 is passed, at the other end the fork of the splicing by which this 

 endpiece, exactly as in the real weapon, was joined to the middle, 

 the point of the latter being set into the fork and lashed fast. 



The hinder end of an arrow-shaft 12*4 cm. long (L. 3621) 

 from tent 301 on Baadskæret is shown in PI. XXV, 24. The part near 

 the notch is flattened, and shows the binding of sinew thread used 

 for holding the feathers. This binding Avas not preserved on any of the 

 real arrow-shafts found. Another, complete arrow-shaft, 19*4 cm. long, 

 (L. 3382) from Maroussia is shown in Fig. 42. 



PI. XXV, 26 shows a small throwing stick (L. 3565) from house 

 134 on Renskæret. It is in present state 1Г8 cm. long, the hinder 

 end lacking. The holding end is rounded, and with grooves on both 

 sides to form a grip for the fingers; there is, however, no hole for 

 the index finger similar to that in the specimen found by Ryder at 

 Scoresby Sound. ^ It thus agrees with the throwing stick found by 

 the Nathorst Expedition^, but diff'ers from both the former spec- 

 imens in the fact that the sides run more or less evenly, whereas 



1 Ryder I, p. 318, Fig. 18 a. The notch shown about the middle in the figure 



PI. XXV, 26 is merely due to a knob having fallen out of the wood. 

 - Stolpe. PI. V, Fig. 17 to the right. 



