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THOMAS THOMSEN 



PI. XVII, 56 (L. 3251 and 3250) show a couple of irregular 

 sticks, merely terminating at the one end in a thin, fine point. 



Two roughly spindle-shaped sticks, (L. 3252-53) were likewise 

 found at Syttenkilometernaesset. The former of these is rounded, 

 10 cm. long, thickness at the middle 1'5 1'9 cm. and at the ends 

 about 0'8 1 cm. The other is more quadrilateral, 9'6 cm. long. At 

 the middle it is 1'5, at the ends 1-1 cm. A round spindle-shaped piece 

 of wood (L. 3504) from house 132 at Renskaeret is exactly similar to 

 3252, but larger, 13'2 cm. long, thickness at the middle 2'2 2'4, at 

 the ends 1 1 '2. All these might be the legs of low hunting stools 

 to stand on. 



At Renskaeret also were found two pieces of wood, alike in shape, 

 both broken off at one end. They are made from a four-sided 

 stick, broadest at the preserved end, about 2'5 cm. from this there 

 is a hole driven right through ; it has not been drilled, but cut out 

 from both sides. The longer piece (L. 3445) from house 131, is 15'6 

 cm. long, 1-9 cm. broad and T4 cm. thick, at the preserved end; 

 from here the breadth decreases to 1-2 and the thickness increases 



to 1-6 at the break. The other 

 fragment, (L. 3419), from house 

 130, is in present state only 9'7 

 cm. long; at the preserved end 

 it is 2-2, and at the other 1-6 cm. 

 broad. Thickness 1*6 cm. 



Several other smaller pieces 

 were found at various places, 

 these being spindle-shaped or cy- 

 lindrical, ranging from 6 9 cm. 

 in length; also numerous wood- 

 en fragments and sticks only 

 slightly shaped. 



Whalebone as a material 

 was greatly prised ; specimens 

 were found not only on the open 

 coast : Thomas Thomsens Naes, 

 Syttenkilometernaesset, Renskae- 

 ret, and Maroussia, but also on places up in Dove Bugt : Baadskaeret, 

 Stormbugt, Snenses and Rypefjeldet. The greatest quantity was found 

 at Syttenkilometernaesset, Renskaeret and Rypefjeldet, the specimens 

 being often found hidden away in some part of the bench or under 

 a tent stone. 



It has doubtless served, as suggested above (p. 457) for the sides 



Fig. 57. 



