Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



skteret, house 131 (Fig. 10 1, length 10'2 cm. They are all bevelled 

 at the butt end to form a single barb, and all thicker than they 

 are broad. In Fig. 10, which is of antler, the bevelling is but imper- 

 fectly executed. 



In the rough-hewn specimens from the west coast of Greenland 

 the work is executed in the same order; the barb or barbs are 

 made as the piece is first cut off, and the general shape then given; 

 the slit is made next, if necessary, then the line hole, and finally 

 the shaft socket. 



Types I and II are main types. Their chief features, both the 

 broader type with line grooves in the same plane, and in contrast, 

 the thick, narrow type with marginal line grooves, are widely di- 

 stributed. In West Greenland 1 , and also at Smith Sound 3 

 these two types occur collaterally. At Angmagsalik Type I 

 predominates, and even if the form is sometimes thick 

 and clumsy, the position of the line grooves is that cha- 

 racteristic of this type. In West Greenland also this is the 

 type for the common harpoon heads; it is in addition the 

 typical Central Eskimo kayak-harpoon head. 3 Further 

 westwards Type II predominates. 



As regards the special development to which these 

 forms have been subject in North-east Greenland, as far 

 as can be judged from the finds made hitherto, the rule is 

 that Type I is not, while Type II is, usually provided with 

 a separate blade The slit is always drilled in the same 

 plane as the line hole. Barbs occur, as a rule, only at T/ s- 

 the butt end. and not at the sides, as is frequently the 

 case in West Greenland and at Angmagsalik. One harpoon head 

 only of Type I, found by C. RYDER far more to the south, on Dan- 

 marks (70 26'), forms, however, an exception to this rule, having 

 one barb on the right side. 1 In their main features these forms 

 point towards north-west, not southwards towards Angmagsalik. 



Judging from the circumstances in which the finds were made, 

 it appears that the differences of type are not dependent on a diffe- 



1 Cf. SVENANDER, PI. I, 37-40 and PI. II, 5974 for the most typical examples 

 of Type I; PL II, 80 approaches very closely to those from N. E. Greenland. 

 For Type II cf. PL I, 1-4 and 30. The author draws attention to the fact that 

 Type II is widely distributed all over thewest, and regards it as the main type (p. 40). 



2 KROEBER, p. 279, Figs. 13 15; BESSELS, p. 362, Figs. 3 and 4. 



' Cf. BOAS III, p. 14, Figs. 4, a c and h; BOAS I, pp. 489-90; the specimen 

 figured on p. 491, in spite of its greater thickness, should also be included in 

 this type. On the other hand, the now uncommon siatko", reproduced after 

 PARRY on p. 475, must be referred to the other type. Cf. also TURNER, p. 250, Fig. 68. 



* Mus. No. L. b. 730; RYDER I. p. 314, Fig. 136. 



