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extend almost entirely to the edge of the base. The butt end 

 of the head is bevelled concavely in such a way that the two 

 basal barbs formed by a cut in the back taper away into two 

 flat tips with very sharp edges, while at the same time they 

 diverge from each other more and more. The slit between 

 them penetrates a little distance into the distinct edge of the 

 shaft socket. Length 9'6 cm. 



This head may be compared with inv. Pfaff No. 52^) from 

 the northern part of West Greenland and with Ryder's fig. 13 a, 

 from Scoresby Sund^). 



Inv. Amd. 2 (PI. XV, 2) which was found in the same place 

 (Cape Tobin) as inv. Amd. 1, has in contradistinction from it 

 an undivided basal barb, but in other respects these heads 

 belong to the same type. The manner in which the inner 

 channel of the line hole is curved (in the horizontal plane of 

 the head), and in which the outer line grooves are formed, the 

 edge lines of the body itself and the ridges of the upper and 

 lower surface, in short all the details of the workmanship in 

 the two heads bear such a close resemblance to each other, 

 that the idea involuntarily suggests itself that they both proceed 

 from one and the same hand. Inv. Amd. 1 viewed from the 

 side, is a little flatter than inv. Amd. 2, the upper and lower 

 surfaces of which bulge over the part which lies nearest to the 

 butt. The side edges of inv. Amd. 2 are straighter, being 

 without the shght curvature near the rear part of the body 

 which distinguishes inv. Amd. 1. The tip of its undivided 

 basal barb is (just as the tips of the barb in No. 1) slightly 

 bevelled from the upper side and tapers to a sharp point. 



Like inv. Amd. 1 this harpoon head is carved out of the 

 hard substance of a marrow-bone, but while the inner softer 

 substance of the bone in the former appears on the upper 

 side, in the latter it is situated on the under side. The bone 



1) Swenander PI. 2, No. 52, cf. pag. 40, fig. 5. 



2) Ryder 314. 



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