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barb of which has three small notches, or is trifurcated. Apart 

 from these ornamentations, the types are sufficiently closely 

 related to one another to suggest the thought of a continuity 

 in tradition. 



Inv.Amd.e (Fig. 5 and PI. XV) is noticeable, in the first place, 

 for its inserted bone blade which is still sticking in it. G. Holm 

 also brought back from Ammassalik a harpoon head with a bone 

 blade, but it was lashed tightly with rawhide, whereas this blade 

 was fastened with a rivet of wood or bone. The slit in which 

 it is jammed is unusually deep (3 cm) 

 and the blade is very securely fastened 

 in it, which result has partly been at- 

 tained by the aid of pieces of whalebone 

 (or wood) wedged in. There was found 

 also a loose harpoon blade of bone {inv. 

 Amd. 8) with two nail holes in it; it 

 does not fit any of the harpoon heads 

 with a slit for the blade which have been 

 found. The blade of inv. Amd. 6 is 

 comparatively large and heavy. In other 

 respects they are of similar shape, ground 

 along the edges on both sides and sharply 

 pointed; only the short basal edge is blunt. 



The body of this harpoon head is also 

 remarkable, resembling in front inv. Amd. 5 in being high and 

 laterally flattened, the upper side having a median ridge; 

 at the rear it is unusually slender and narrow (without 

 lateral ridges); in cross section it is oval. The upper side of 

 the body is also, like inv. Amd. 5, slightly concave from the 

 middle towards the basal spur. The line-hole lies laterally in 

 the same plane as the blade. There is a short but distinct 

 line groove on the left side. The right side of the harpoon 



Fig. 5. Harpoon head. 

 Skærgaardshalvo. 



Inv .Nathorst (Hammar) in the Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



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