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has retained its whiteness more perfectly in these two heads 

 than in any other in this little collection. 



Inv. Amd. 3 (Fig. 2 and PI. XV) is a short and dumpy har- 

 poon head, almost rectangular in cross-section, but with rounded 

 angles. The upper side, which is perfectly plane, is a little 

 broader than the belly, which in front is slightly convexed. 

 Both sides taper slightly towards the curved front edge, 

 where in a broad slit an iron blade is still sticking. The 

 openings of the line-hole in the side of the head are large, 

 the line grooves cutting deep into them. Just as in the heads 

 described above, the line grooves extend backward right out to 

 the edge of the basal socket. The butt end is cut off with a 

 short and concave bevel. The edge of the 

 socket for the shaft is sharply defined, on 

 the other hand the outermost edge of the 

 concave basal surface is rounded, running 

 over into the lateral surface and the under 

 side. The basal barbs are separated by a 

 curved slit, whereas in inv. Amd. 1 they 

 meet at an acute angle. 



The front part of the head is pierced 

 from the upper to the under side by two 

 holes, which lie in the median of the body; 

 in the foremost of these two holes there is still sticking a nail 

 which holds the blade, which latter, as is seems, was also 

 wedged into the slit with small pieces of iron. The two nail- 

 holes both on the upper and on the lower side of the body 

 are united by a fairly deep narrow gutter, as if the intention 

 had been to form a countersink for a lashing through the two 

 holes. And in fact tlie innermost nail-hole and one of these 

 countersinks are Glied with a substance which looks as if it 

 were the remains of a narrow skin thong. The iron blade is 

 in parts corroded by rust, or broken. — This piece resembles 

 \ery much a West Greenland type of harpoon head ^). 



Fig. 2. Harpoon head. 

 Cape Tobin. 



') Swenander 40, fig. 4. 



