364 THOMAS THOMSEN 



As on the east shore of Stormbugt, the necklace only - - viz. 

 seven black, cylindrical stone beads (PI. VII, 8) - - was lying inside 

 the grave. Exactly similar beads have been found at Hekla Harbour 

 near Scoresby Sound. 1 



The rest of the grave-goods were deposited in a small space, 

 enclosed with stones, only 30 cm. square, and situated immediately 

 south of the grave. They had been lying in an oval wooden box, 

 of which only the bottom, 18'5 cm. long and 9 cm. broad, was 

 preserved, while the sides, which had probably been made of 

 whalebone, as is not infrequently the case, had crumbled away. 

 The find consisted of: Two women's knives, Ulos, (see PI. VII, 10 and 

 11), of which the larger, of reddish slate, was furnished with a 

 wooden handle ; the blade had been inserted in a groove in the 

 handle and lashed to it; the smaller one, which was of greenish 

 slate, had no handle; also a needlecase of bone of the shape 

 peculiar to Greenland (PI. VII, 9); four bodkins or bodkin-like bone 

 pieces (PL VII, 2 5); a similar implement, but with a leaf-shaped 

 expansion below (PL VII, 1), which had doubtless been used as a 

 boot-sole creaser; a small tapering needle-shaped piece of bone, pier- 

 ced transversely (PL VII, 6); a flat bone toggle button (PL VII, 7), 

 pierced in the middle and with two leaf-shaped wings; lastly a 

 tiny flint core (PL VII, 12), from which flakes had been chipped off, 

 and two flint flakes. 



In another similar grave deposit (531) which was situated 2 1 /2 

 metres SE. of the grave, only some small wooden sticks were found. 



These objects strongly recall the find from the Sksergaards Halv0 r 

 brought home by Captain G. AMDRUP'S expedition of 1898 1900. 2 

 Unfortunately the leader of the expedition was absent when this 

 splendid and important find was made; it consisted of goods from 

 three separate graves, and on his return he found that the objects 

 had been mixed up. A comparison between these two finds may,, 

 however, throw some light on both. The find from the Skaer- 

 gaards Halvo contained, among other things: a box with an 

 oval, wooden bottom (THALBITZER, p. 409, Fig. 26) ; a woman's knife 

 with a slate blade (1. c. Fig. 21 and Fig. 13); a needlecase (Fig. 35); a 

 series of bone bodkins and similar implements (Figs. 1820), and a 

 bone toggle button pierced in the middle (Fig. 30); to these must 

 be added the necklace of pierced teeth mentioned above (Fig. 34). 



This group of objects, as regards its composition, approaches so 

 nearly to the grave-find from Rypefjeldet that one may be justified 

 in taking each as a single whole, the entire collection in either case 



1 Mus. No. L. c. 1381; Ryder I, p. 338, fig. 39 d. - THALBITZER I. pp. 380 425. 



