Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



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Fig. 32. 



Only one of the knives here mentioned had the handle still preserv- 

 ed. 1 Two other handles, both of wood, were found without blades. 

 One of these (L. 3213), from Syttenkilometernaesset, Fig. 33 a, is 

 of the usual shape; upper edge thick (2 cm.) and longer than the 

 lower, in which the groove for 

 the blade is cut. The upper edge 

 is 7*6 cm. long, the lower 5*5, 

 height 3'6 cm. The groove, which 

 is 4 mm. deep, runs the whole 

 length of the lower edge. In the 

 upper edge, there is a hole in 

 the middle, and another at one 

 end ; these have, however, noth- 

 ing to do with the present purpose of the piece, one of them having 

 been cut through when the wood was severed off to be used for a 

 knife handle. 



The same type is seen again in the handles from the grave at 

 Rypefjeldet (PL VII, 10) and at Cape Franklin (SOLBERG p. 55, Fig. 46) 



save that in these, there are holes 

 for lashing the blade into the 

 handle, whereas in the present 

 specimen, the two parts needed 

 no lashing to hold them together. 

 The other handle piece (L. 3986) 

 from house 527 at Rypefjeldet (Fig. 

 33 b) is of a different form. It is 

 roughly and carelessly fashioned 

 from a casual find, a bit of stick 

 in places charred by fire; evidently, 

 it can only have been intended to 

 serve some temporary purpose in 

 an emergency. The original shape 



of the stick is still in the main preserved; it is thicker at one end 

 than at the other, and- only the upper surface has been smoothed to 

 any extent. The groove for the blade is but 3 cm. long, the length 

 of the handle being 7'2. In each of the vertical sides two grooves 

 have been cut to take the lashings for the blade. The height of the 

 piece is only 1-4 1*8, and thickness 1/7 1*8 cm. 



In the foregoing treatment of the Ulo are included all specimens 

 falling under this class in regard to shape, without regard to pos- 

 sible differences in the use for which intended. SOLBERG correctly ob- 



1 Mus. No. L. 3067; cf. p. 442. 



Fig. 33. 



