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lateral ridges — thus an entirely different type from the foregoing 

 flat harpoon heads. The upper edge of the harpoon head is 

 slightly concave from the middle towards the butt; whereas 

 the rest of it curves convexly towards the point of the head. 

 The head has one spur for a barb. The line-hole, which is of 

 considerable breadth, is cut straight across the vertical plane 

 of the body; behind the aperture on the right side is seen a 

 very short line groove; on the left side there has also probably 

 been a corresponding groove, but the whole of this side is 

 highly decayed, A large piece of the rear part of the left 

 side is missing, so that one side of the basal socket for 

 the foreshaft is quite open; on the whole of the other side 

 is seen a slanting groove, evidently the bed of a lashing which 

 has been carried through the little perforation at the root of 

 the basal barb to complete the shaft socket. This groove cuts 

 in deeply particularly at the lower edge of the head in order 

 that the wrapping might not hinder the head from penetrating 

 the animal. 



This harpoon head in its whole shape, in fact in its very 

 details, resembles inv. Pfaff No. 7^), a harpoon head from 

 Disko Bay in West Greenland; Swenander defines the head 

 from North West Greenland in terms which apply perfectly to 

 this head from North East Greenland. 



I also find heads which remind one of this type, from more 

 remote Eskimo regions. The Gjöa Expedition (Amundsen) brought 

 back from King William's Land some specimens of harpoon 

 heads of a similar type (Christiania Ethnographic Museum, in- 

 ventoriai Nos. 16038 and 16035), made entirely of bone, one of 

 them 9"3 cm, the other 6*8 cm long; the latter with undivided 

 basal barb, the former with eight small notches in the rounded 

 edge of the basal barb. This latter feature is also found in 

 one of Nathorst's heads from North East Greenland M, the basal 



^) Swenander, PI. I, no. 7. 



