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head and the greater part of the lower side is brolien off and 

 is missing, so that the shaft socket is completely opened; the 

 bottom of the socket lies only 3 ram apart from the line-hole. 

 — As in inv. Amd. 5, the rear part has been lashed round, but 

 the lashing on this head has not been carried through a hole 

 in the upper part of the barb, but merely sunk in a groove which 

 runs the whole way round. The end of the barb is undivided. 

 Finally, a peculiarity of this harpoon head is its twisted 

 form; its body is bent in its back part sideways to the right, 

 when looked at from above, and the under side somewhat more 

 bent than the upper side. 



Inv. Amd. 7 (Fig. 6 and PI. XV) resembles to 



some extent the harpoon head just described, but 



is still narrower, still more flattened laterally. 



The lateral surfaces are sUghtly arched; the 



cross section of the front part of the body is 



elliptical. The narrow upper side is rounded 



in front, and is sharper behind. A twist of the 



back end like that in No. 6 is also observable 



here, but turning to the left instead of to the 



right. There is a slit for a blade (of bone, or 



stone) 2 cm deep, 0"5 cm broad, but the blade 



Harpoon head, is missing. A hole which pierces the head at 



Skaergaardshalvo. ^щ\^{ angles to the plane of the slit, shows that 



the blade has been riveted. The basal barb is slightly bifurcated. 



This head has suffered severely from frost and damp. At the 



rear the whole of the right side is missing, so that one of the 



sides of the shaft socket is open. There has been a lashing 



on this part of the head to remedy this defect; this lashing 



lay in a groove, and was carried through a hole in the upper 



part of the root of the barb. 



Inv. Amd. 8 (PI. XV, 8). Bone blade for a harpoon head, 

 about 4 cm in length, of the same shape as the iron and stone 

 blades that are known (cf. e. g., the iron blade in No. 3, the 



