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The German North Pole Expedition of 1869—70 found in 

 Klein Pendulum Island north of Franz Joseph's fjord a partially 

 carved narwhal tusk in the bevelled base of which is seen a 

 narrow hole, but the form of the base militates against the 

 supposition that the piece was used as a detachable bone-shaft. 

 In contradistinction from Inv. Amd. 11, the cylindrical form of 

 the tusk has been retained; the front part really seems to have 

 been left quite rough. Stolpe ^) mentions a similar find made 

 by the Swedish Expedition to North East Greenland in 1899, 

 and the leader of the expedition,- Nathorst^), has in his book a 

 reproduction of this narwhal tusk; it is only worked at its butt 

 end, where three or four holes are seen in the median line of 

 the side, as well as a bevel at the very bottom, on the surface 

 of which is seen a little hole "as if it (the tusk) was to be 

 fastened to a shaft". These implements seem to have had a 

 somewhat different function from the narwhal-bone shaft dis- 

 covered by Amdrup, the double line-hole of which relegates it 

 to a place among the well-known detachable forepieces of 

 harpoons or lances. The two previously discovered narwhal 

 tusks must have been firmly attached weapons heads (foreshafts 

 of whale harpoons?). 



I might here take occasion to observe that one of the 

 legendary heroes of East Greenland, Uijarteq, according to the 

 traditions of the Ammassalik people^), is said to have had 'an 

 arrow-head (?) made out of an entire narwhal tusk', just as his 

 companion had one of 'walrus tusk'. 



Inv. Amd. 12 (PI. XVI) is the loose bone shaft of a lance, 

 31 cm long. It is made of a heavy piece of the hard substance of 

 a bone, probably of the bone of a whale, which is fairly spongy. 

 The shape of the |piece is uniform, biconvex, the cross-section 

 almost elliptical, the lower part towards the butt being thicker 



stülpe 105. 

 Nathorst II, 344. 

 Holm 255. 



