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in length, made of a reindeer horn, broadest just behind the 

 point and in the parts around the strap-hole. The dark-brown 

 upper side is smooth and hard, unevenly convex, the spongy 

 under side is highly weathered. Originally the piece seems to 

 have been thicker and more rounded, as the lower end, which 

 still retains its thickness, attests. The head is not quite straight; 

 the fore end curves slightly upwards, and the same is the case 

 with the middle. Not only the point, but also the foremost 

 part of the side edges, is sharp like a lancet. About the point 

 marks of a cutting tool are perceptible. The pointing seems 

 to have been made with a knife, after which the upper surface 

 has been smoothed. 



The strap-hole, which is single, has under one of its mouths 

 what appears to be a faint trace of a groove; perhaps, however, 

 it is merely the mark produced by the rubbing of the strap. 

 The edge of the other mouth of the hole is weathered away. 



At the lower end is seen a cross scratched awry on the 

 surface between the hole and the conically pointed base, 

 but it has been so carelessly executed that no importance can 

 be attached to it. If Swenander is right in his assertion that 

 the lances of the Greenlanders usually have a double line- 

 groove (two line-holes), Inv. Amd. 13 must either be one of 

 the rare lance heads of the old type, with only one hole, of 

 which he has a few reproductions (inv. Pfaff 163, 164, 166), or 

 must have been part of another implement, probably an arrow- 

 head. It deserves to be noted that it has no barb, nor is there 

 any slit for the insertion of a blade in the head. The pointed 

 head of the antler has apparently been used for the point of the 

 weapon. In form and material it bears a slight resemblance to 

 the small arrow heads which figure next to it in plate XVI. 



Inv. Amd. U, 15 and 16 (Plate XVI). The three small 

 flat bone-heads from Dunholm, from 15 to 16 cm. in length, 

 two of which are illustrated here, must have been inserted in 

 the fore-end of wooden arrow shafts. One of them is perhaps 



