Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 



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PI. XVII, 7 shows another wooden specimen from the same place 

 (L. 3214). The end pointing left has been broken off, the other end 

 is complete. In the lower edge, which is the thicker (1-5 cm.), a 

 groove 6 mm. wide has been cut, beginning a couple of cm. from 

 the end and continuing to the point of breakage. The thickness 

 decreases towards the upper edge, where the two surfaces meet at 

 an angle. The breadth is 4'2 cm. Close above the groove two holes 

 have been bored through, one 2 cm., the other 9 cm. from the com- 

 plete end ; a third is seen at the break. On the reverse side to that 

 shown, a slight furrow runs down from the middle hole to the 

 grooved edge, showing that the holes must have been intended to 

 take the lashing with which some blade or cutting edge, for instance, 

 was held fast in the groove. The preserved end is cut off somewhat 

 obliquely, and part of the upper edge has been cut away for the 

 5 cm. nearest this. There is some likelihood that the specimen may 

 have served as the handle of a two-handed scraper, as in the case 

 of the bone piece shown in PI. XXVI, 5; in its present defective 

 state, however, this cannot be determined with certainty. 



Fig. 55. 



Fig. 55, from the same place, (L. 3234) is a foursided stick, 21 '4 

 cm. long, 1*4 x 1/8 thick. One end is cut off straight, the other has 

 been shaved down slantwise for about 10cm., with a notch above; 

 here an extension piece has been fastened with two nails, one where 

 the end of the slanting surface is now, the other 2'5 cm. in from 

 the edge of the notch. At right angles to the direction of these nails, 

 two others, as shown in the figure, have been driven, 5*5 and 9 cm. 

 from the straight end of the piece; one of these is still completely, 

 the other partially preserved in its hole. From the inner hole a 

 groove runs down to the lower edge, so that something was evidently 

 intended to be lashed fast there; the nails 

 only served to hold the lashing. Between 

 the two nail holes there is a groove in the 

 upper edge, 1*5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide and 

 deep. 



At the same place, tent 75, the fragment 

 shown in Fig. 56 was found. It is quite 

 flat, only 6 mm. thick, breadth 4, length now 7*8 cm. The preserved 

 end is rounded, close to this end a hollow about 2 cm. in extent 

 has been cut. 



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Fig. 56. 



