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THOMAS THOMSKN 



slips of reindeer antler; only the forepart has been narrowed down 

 and rounded off at the edges and the end, and neither edge nor 

 point are sharp. Both are evidently intended for the 

 same purpose. 



PL XXVI, 3 (L. 3483) from house 132, a complete 

 specimen, is 23'9 cm. long, 2*5 cm. broad at the hin- 

 der end, the rounding off of the edges commences 

 about 3 > 5 5 cm. from the point, nearer the end on 

 the left than on the right edge. - - Fig. 45 (L. 3554) 

 from house 134, has the hinder end broken off, pre- 

 sent length 12'5 cm., greatest breadth 2 cm.; the part 

 rounded off for use is only a couple of cm. long. 



The implement shown in Fig. 46 (L. 3206), from 

 Syttenkilometernaesset, consists of the end of a rein- 

 deer antler, 23*5 cm. long, and broken off at the 

 hinder end. Only a portion 3*5 4 cm. long at the 

 fore end has been shaped, this being cut down to a 

 wedge shape from both sides; the two surfaces meet, 

 though not in a sharp edge. 



A similar wedge-shaped pointing of the fore 

 end is seen in the implement shown in PL XX, 7, 

 (L. 3885). This specimen, found at the camping 

 ground at Snenaes, is 34 cm. long, and is a piece 

 split off from a long bone. The wedge-shaped sharp- 

 ening of the one end is all that has been done to it. 

 A piece of bone found at the same place is shown 

 in PL XX, 8, (L. 3884); it has been split off in a 

 similar way, and from marks at the hinder end it 

 is evident that the bone has been cut through by 

 Fig. 46. !/. means of the drill. The length is 26'8 cm., breadth 



of a rear half 2'5 2'8. From the middle or 

 thereabouts, the bone is narrowed down from either side to 

 a breadth of only 1 cm.; the extreme end has been thinned 

 down with a few irregular strokes. 



Fig. 47 shows a carefully fashioned and smoothly po- 

 lished little tool (L. 3323) from house 141 on Maroussia. It 

 is made of narwhal's tusk, 7'2 cm. long, round, but slightly 

 flattened. The upper end is convex, the thickness, which is 

 here 0'9 1-2 cm., decreases gradually to 5 mm., after which 

 the extreme end runs down abruptly to a short conical point, 

 in which a small hole has been driven, scarcely 2 mm. deep 

 and thus hardly suited for the insertion of a drill-bit. A Fig 47 

 similar article, (L. 6631) was brought home by AMDRUP from a/ 3 . 



