I II. .MA'. I II. -MM \ 



sider helow ('.. 1> Tiiosruri', in the plaee eiled, deserihes it as 



follows: 



\\ititc-i II.MIM- I(M*> had t\s. Mii.ill RQ 06X61 :il tin- honl \\.\\\ \\birb 

 \\rii- mostlx lillrd up \\ith remains of bone-. 1 In plaltorm was eon 

 shiieted ol -i.ixrl mi Ihc lloorplaer Mine were Hal stones and the bottom 

 ol tin- passage lax lower than the llooi \bo\e Hie innermost, lla I, eox erin^ 

 stone ol the passage thru- \\.r.a recess \\itb a triangular Opening in towards 

 the house lhe measurements ol the opening \\ ei r alon-. tin- bast 1 n .'. Ibr 



IKJ'J and IMM M." 



Aground plan of the house is ^ivrn in tin- NMIIU- \\oik IM II 



A luiiiiluT of ornanifiital ohjrrls and small li^un-s IVom this 

 art* illiislrati-d in my IM. \1 '-' II, \i/. Nos. 7 \l tlin-e hone 

 pendants, 10, eight lou^ rylindrioal hone heads; 11, a pienvd tooth 

 similar to those found in ; ;i.ive 821 011 the east shore of Stormlm-l 

 (el IM VII, 13K l!i % a boot-shaped pendant ornament of hone; i;>, a 

 hlark stone pciulanl, with one side flattened (d\ IM. VII, l., 1 I, a i-oiii 

 cal pendant of mottled green Stone. Besides these there an sexeral hone 

 figures, viz. Nos. 2 i>, representing swinunin^; hirds, hoth llallened on 

 their uiuler sides, so as to stand, hut provided in addition \\ith a hole 

 at their rear end for suspension; a thin! speeimen is not li-nred, 

 4 5, seals, Hat on the side reversed in pietme so that the\ are 

 imagined lying on their haeUs, hut, like the preeediiij;, also 

 intended for suspension; 6, a woman \\ith an d/mi/i/, tin- wide 

 hood distinctly shown, hut the lower part of the li-ure less eare 

 fullv executed, the le^s, for instanee, hi'in- separateil oul\ hy a hon-d 

 out groove. The figures xvere found inside the house, inmiedialedly 

 to the left of the passage. 



Such small hone figures of animals, adapted for suspension, and 

 flattened below, so that they can also stand or lie down, an- known 

 from North-east Greenland in AMDKI i-'s tind from Cape 1'ohin i> M 

 N. laU and in the tind from U\peljeldet brought home hy the Dan 

 mark Kxpedition, hut, as far as 1 knovs, they ha\e not heeu found 

 in West (ireenland. Very closely related to this l-last dreiMdaml 

 group is a tind consisting of some leu small lij;ures representing 

 sraK, In-ars, etc , obtained together \\ ith some other miniature objects 

 h\ the Sverdrup i:\pedition in June ll0l> at Slenkuls l-'ji>rd, Kou- 

 Oskars Land uihout 77 l , N. lat.V l 



BOAS* informs us rc^ardint; a similar set from (aunherlatul 

 Soniul that they \\ere there used for a kind of -ame, timjininjuiiij 

 (i. e. images of birds\ in which they were thrown as diee MM; 



1 tn the Museum in Chi ixtuiu.i, N,.s uino u; .nut iviv .;.. SVKRDHI-P, \,.l 11. 



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