202 



Morten P. Porsild. 



also how to sharpen them and does not purposely work with blunt 

 instruments. Disco Fjord. 



£■ is a wooden handle, probably for an awl. Above, sinew thread 

 has been wound round it. Sarqaq. 



F, G, H, I are knife blades of European manufacture, but found in 



graves together with other antiqui- 

 ties. The handle of F is thought 

 to be of European manufacture, 

 while the handle of the others are 

 of local manufacture. G has a dot 

 and circle ornamentation, which, 

 here, is undoubtedly made with a 

 steel instrument. The hollows are 

 defined with quite sharp edges, 

 and the fact of the bone not being 

 quite plane has not troubled the 

 maker in the execution of his ornamentation. All from Sarqaq. 



J is a richly ornamented handle for a knife, from a grave at 

 Disco Fjord. The tang of the blade has gone right through it. It 

 has been furnished with a ring, and the wood appears to be of oak. 

 The carving which is very regular has no doubt been produced by 

 turning. In short, the handle is of European (Norwegian?) workman- 

 ship, and has come here before the era of Christianity. 

 Fig. 43 is the wooden handle probably of an adze. 



Edge protectors. 



Fig. 44 shows a couple of instruments which, so far as is known, 

 have not been previously mentioned, and are not known either to 



5 Юспь. 



Fig. 43. Wooden handle which has 

 had a blade at its rear end, and which 

 has been lashed at its centre to a shaft 



and then served as an adze. 



im i mm-WÀ^''*- ' у.^ЭД'ЦЦЧДи и ни ц х.ц; jum i p i mmi i 



5cTTv. 



Fig. 44. Two pieces of wood intended for fastening on to adzes to protect the 



edges when travelling. 



everybody here. They are narrow pieces of wood, oval in transverse 

 section, with a deep groove in one side. At each end of the 

 groove there is a small hole, and from this a small slit is directed 

 obliquely upwards towards the side which has the deep groove. They 



