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- 8 cm. From here it decreases evenly towards the point, which is 

 not sharp. The last two cm. at the hinder end run somewhat thin- 

 ner, the hinder part is rough. 



A far smaller piece, rounded, but now much weather-worn, is 

 the bone point from house 406 at Snenses (L. 3815). It is 17'5 cm. 

 long, thickness at the greatest part 7 mm., decreasing towards the 

 blunt point and also, in a lesser degree, towards the hinder end. A 

 fragment of the fore end of such a point, 5'8 cm. long, (L. 4032) was 

 found at Rypefjeldet. 



PI. .XV, 8 shows a small pointed splinter of reindeer horn (L. 3533) 

 from house 133 on Renskajret. It is 4 - 7 cm. long; at its greatest part, 

 the section is irregularly quadrilateral, only the last cm. at one end 

 ^_ is conically pointed. The point was doubtless originally ex- 

 tremely sharp. 



Fig. 51 is a small conical piece of hollow bone (L. 3536) 



2'8 cm. long. The mouth measures 1 x 1'2 cm., the thin end 



Fig.51. i s blunt and angular. It would seem to have served as a fer- 



* rule for some instrument or other. Found in same house as 



previous specimen. 



Among bone implements should finally be included the non- 

 descript specimen shown in Fig. 52 (L. 3654) from among the winter 

 houses on the east shore of Stormbugt. It is made of reindeer horn; 

 the curve and the difference in breadth, from 1-2 to 1-5, between 

 the two ends, are probably due 

 to the original shape of the 

 antler. Thickness at the middle 

 1 cm., at the ends 7 mm. There 

 is an oblong hole at either end. 

 that at the broader end must 

 have been about 2 cm., the one at the narrow end only some 

 few mm. deep. 



In addition to the bone specimens above described, a number of 

 pieces of bone were found at the various places, all more or less 

 shaped, and doubtless intended for working on, or fragments from 

 the making of other tools. 



The find at the camping ground at Syttenkilometernsesset con- 

 tained an unusual number of wooden articles. The position of 

 the settlement on a jutting point of the open coast, with the Polar 

 Current setting close in to land, would naturally furnish opportunity 

 for a rich collection of driftwood. Several articles from here have 

 already been mentioned in the foregoing, as for instance the prongs 

 for fish spears PI. XVII, 34, the ulo handle Fig. 33 a, the toy kayak 



