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first-mentioned the leaf-shaped fore end is short and thick and has 

 a slit for the blade, in the others it is long and slender. The two 

 latter have undoubtedly belonged to weapons for children. 



b. Arrowheads with wedge-shaped tang. 



All the specimens described below are bevelled at the lower 

 end on one or on both sides for insertion into the split fore end of 

 the shaft; the wedge thereby formed lies in the plane of the flattened 

 surface of the head. 



L. 3052. (PI. IX, 1). As to the form related to L. 4021 and L. 3806; length 

 8'3 cm. In the ellipsoid fore end a blade-slit, 8 mm. deep and 1'5 mm. broad, 

 has been made by drilling. 



L. 3053. (PI. IX, 2). Related to L. 4022 et seq.: length 8'5 cm. 



These two arrowheads, both from Snenses, grave 423, are mini- 

 ature weapons like the two preceding specimens. The four described 

 below are weapons for use corresponding to the miniature speci- 

 men L. 3053. They are made of bone, cut from the solid, with long, 

 leaf-shaped blades, triangular in transverse section, narrowing to a 

 tang, which is bevelled on one or both sides in the plane of the 

 blade; they have required a thick shaft. Close to grave 422 at Sne- 

 nses, where two of them (L. 3044 and 3045) were found, a fragment 

 of a rather thick shaft was lying together with them ; it probably 

 belonged to one of the heads (PI. VIII, 47). 



L. 3041. (PI. VIII, 4); length 19'4 cm., extreme breadth 2'3 cm. The tang 

 bevelled on the ridged side and roughened for a distance of 3'3 cm.; 

 breadth 1'3 cm. 



L. 3044. (PI. VIII, 5); length 23'6, extreme breadth 2'4 cm. The tang be- 

 velled on both sides and roughened for a distance of 3'7 cm.; breadth 1'4 cm. 



L. 3045. (PI. VIII, 6); only the blade part of the head preserved; present 

 length 20'4 cm., extreme breadth 2'4 cm. 



L. 4145. The spring settlement at Rypefjeldet, tent 615. The anterior 

 portion of the blade; present length 11 cm., breadth 2 cm. 



The heads included in this group are of a type peculiar to 

 North-east Greenland, which has no parallel on the west coast. 

 Three specimens from the AMDRUP Expedition ' probably belong to 

 this group, but they must all be regarded as unfinished, not even 

 the cutting edges having been sharpened. 



c. Obtuse arrowheads. 



A more peculiar form of bone arrowhead, with an obtuse point 

 and a bevelled tang, is represented by the three following spec- 

 imens: 



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