408 THOMAS THOMSEN 



L. 3117 b. Thomas Thomsens Nses, near tent 48 (Fig. 22 6); 

 length 8-3 cm., extreme thickness 1 cm.; straight. The anterior por- 

 tion is elliptical in transverse section. Bevelled surface 35 cm. long. 

 L. 3894. "Bastionerne" (Fig. 22 c); length 10 cm., extreme thick- 

 ness I'l cm.; bevelled surface 4 cm. long. Form like that of the pre- 



ceding specimen. 



J L. 3410. Renskseret, house 130 (Fig. 22 a). 



m J Made from the tip of an antler and retaining 



JS its curved form ; length 9'4 cm., extreme thick- 



fl J ness 1 cm. ; bevelled surface 4 4 2 cm. long. 



j| RYDER brought home four specimens of 



this kind 1 , which he undoubtedly with justice 



regards as heads of bird arrows. On the other 



w hand, judging from their form, they have 



hardly, as the author appears to believe, been 



employed singly, spliced to the shaft. Regard- 



1 ing the West Greenland bird arrows Hans 



Egede writes 2 : "The bird arrows are furnished 



Fig 22. */2 



with two or three obtuse bone pieces at their 



apex, so as to kill the birds only and not spoil the meat". In 

 the West Greenland collection belonging to the National Museum in 

 Copenhagen there is a double-pointed arrow of this kind with its 

 shaft still preserved, but its exact origin is not known. 



I am inclined to believe that the above-mentioned specimens 

 should be regarded as arrowheads of this type. 



d. Arrow shafts. 



Regarding the shafts of these different kinds of arrowhead the 

 collection gives but little information. 



It has been mentioned above that in the grave find from Snenses 

 (grave 422), together with three large, slender arrowheads with 

 wedge-shaped butt ends, a fragment of a shaft (L. 3048) was dis- 

 covered, which judging from its position must be regarded as having 

 belonged to one of the heads. It is, however, defective at both 

 ends; at the fore end it is circular in section, about 1'3 cm. in dia- 

 meter; towards the nock, on the other hand, it becomes elliptical 

 in section, about T6 x 1*2 cm.; it terminates in a bevelled plane to 

 which the rear part of the shaft has been spliced (PI. VIII, 7). 



The only arrowshaft (L. 3863) which may be regarded as pro- 

 bably complete in the essential parts comes likewise from Snenaes, 

 but was found in the neighbourhood of houses 406 and 407 (PI. 



1 RYDER I, p. 310, Fig. 10. 2 HANS EGEDE, p. 56. 



