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being widened out above. From the inner hole extends on the 

 under side of tlie head a distinct, but not particularly deep, 

 longish groove, which must have formed a bed for the line 

 with which the head was connected with the bladder. 



The principle in accordance with which the hne was fast- 

 ened in the case of this harpoon head must have been different 

 from the usual one. Here the line can not, as in Nos. I and 2, 

 have held the head in a noose formed by its being drawn through 

 the line-hole and the end of the line fastened further down on 

 it; but the end of the line must 

 have been twisted into a knot which 

 was sunk in the countersink at 

 the mouth of the hole, and in this 

 way held the head tight. By this 

 device the line ran singly throughout 

 its whole length. 



1 have not found this type of 

 harpoon head anywhere, although 

 a harpoon head from North West 

 Greenland in the Stockholm Riks- 

 museum(lnv.PfaffNo.41 ^ resembles 

 it as regards the position of the 

 line-holes (No. 41, however, has 

 three holes instead of two), and the 



two heads also resemble one another in having the butt end 

 cut off with an angular bevel, and in the basal barb being 

 median and slightly bifurcated at the end. 



Inv. Amd. 5 (Fig. 4 and PI. XV) is a very high and nar- 

 row harpoon head made of bone, all in one piece, the front 

 part nearly rhomboidal in cross section, with four faces, so that 

 the sides meet in an upper and nether acute angle (only at the 

 rear of the body is the nether edge rounded instead of sharp) 

 and in two lateral obtuse angles which appear as oblique 



Fig. 4. Harpoon head. 

 Skaereaardshalvö. 



') Swenander, 11. 



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