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As indications of land hunting there are a long, slender arrow- 

 head of bone and two of the well-known implements (PL XIII, 7) for 

 twisting the backing of the bow 1 ; the latter are only 7'5 8 cm. in 

 length and rather slender. 



Of the sledge and its accessories two bone buckles for the har- 

 ness were found, 7-8 and 6'2 cm. long (PI. XV, 11 12); in the larger 

 specimen the groove has obviously been made by drilling. Of sledge 

 shoes two specimens were collected, one of which (PI. XVIII, 14) had 

 been fastened to the fore end of the sledge-runner; it is 35*3 cm. 

 long and 7 cm. wide, and tapering in front, with apex rounded. A 

 transverse groove near the fore end has served for the reception of 

 a strap. The bone object with two pierced holes shown in PI. XI, 

 15, has probably served to tighten the cross straps of the kayak. 2 



Of men's knives there are a complete example and a fragment, 

 the former, a single-edged slate knife, is 12*9 cm. in length and 3'5 

 cm. in extreme breadth, without a constriction for the handle (PI. XII, 1). 

 A slate reamer is shown in PL XIII, 9; of the apex, which is polished, 

 the extreme tip is missing; it expands at the butt end and passes 

 evenly into the tang, which is not polished. 



The series of men's objects is completed by some material partly 

 worked, consisting of pieces of antler, split off by boring, or cut off. 



From woman's sphere of action the lamp stood as yet untouched 

 in front of the platform, and around it lay fragments of the 

 cooking vessel. The lamp, which was of mica slate, was 24*5 cm. 

 long and 15'5 broad (PL XXIV, 1). The fragments of the cooking ves- 

 sel show that it had been broken actually during use and had been 

 pierced with holes for lashing the fragments together (PL XXIV, 4). 

 The height of the vessel had been 9'5 cm.; and at the angles there 

 had been ears for attaching the straps for suspension. 



Of women's knives some beautiful specimens made of slate were 

 found. The largest (PL XII, 16), which is 12'4 cm. long and 8 cm. 

 high, has a sharply curved cutting edge, the sides are slightly rounded, 

 and it terminates at the top in a small tang; there are no holes for 

 nailing. Another knife (PL XII, 18), 12*3 cm. long and 6*8 cm. high, 

 has a slightly curved cutting edge and straight sides; it has had a 

 tang similar to that in Figure 16, but it is partly broken off; below 

 the tang are two holes for attaching the handle by nails. A third 

 specimen (PL XII, 17) is smaller, being only 4'8 cm. high; this speci- 

 men has also had a tang and two nail holes, but is now damaged 

 at both ends. While these three knives are carefully made and quite 

 thin, there is a fourth blade of slate (PL XXIII, 3) which is quite 



1 Gf. Murdoch II PI. X Fig. 27. 2 Cf. NANSEN, Eskimoliv, p. 37, the figure to the 

 left, and pp. 3940. 



