Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



403 



spikes are quadrilateral in 

 9 mm. in extreme breadth, 

 hole about 3'5 cm. from 

 the butt end. They are 

 probably all from SnenaBS, 

 house 406 l . 



L. 3641. East shore 

 of Stormbugt, house 319. 

 Marline spike (Fig. 18 e), 

 12'7 cm. long and V6 cm. 

 broad at the hole. Made 

 of the side of a narwhal 

 tusk; on one surface part 

 of the hollow of the tusk 

 is seen. 



L. 3713. East shore of 

 Stormbugt, in one of tents 

 belonging to the camping 

 ground. Twister (Fig. 18 a), 

 8*8 cm. long and 1*4 cm. 

 broad at the middle; the 

 hole is not placed exactly 

 at the centre. At one edge 

 there is trace of a drilled 

 hole, which bears no re- 

 lation to the twister as 

 such; probably made when 

 the material was cut out. 



L. 4024. Rypefjeldet. 

 Twister (Fig. 18 &). Some- 

 what defective at one end. 

 usual hole near the centre 



transverse section, 11'7 and 10 cm. long and 8 

 Like the twisters, they are furnished with a large 



Fig. 18. 2 / 3 . 



7'5 cm. long and 1*4 cm. broad. Besides the 

 there is another at one end of the specimen. 



Bows of Whalebone. 



In the northernmost districts of West Greenland, a bent bow of 

 whalebone is found in addition to the bow-forms already mentioned. 

 It is represented in the Copenhagen Museum by a few specimens 

 only. They are made of two layers which have been lashed together 

 in several places by mean of thin whalebone thongs passed through 

 holes placed in pairs; the double layer does not, however, extend to 

 the end of the bow, but only slightly beyond the bend 2 . The great 

 elasticity of the whalebone has made a backing superfluous. 



1 The marline spikes No. 4025 26 are recorded to have been found near Rype- 

 fjeldet, but as in other respects confusion has evidently taken place as regards 

 objects from these two finds, owing to the death of the collector, L. MYLIUS- 

 ERICHSEN, I do not hesitate to refer these objects to the same set; they are 

 all of them similarly weathered, and all are furnished with quite an unusually 

 large hole. 



2 Cf. BIRKET-SMITH II, p. 21 et seq., Fig. 3; another bow, now in Stockholm, is 

 depicted by A. E. NORDENSKIOLD, p. 481. 



