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nesses at the rear end of inv. Anid. 17 are a crude attempt to 



represent a worm of this kind. 



Inv. Amd. 17 (Fig. 8 and PI. XVI) is a 

 weapon head, 21-5 cm in length, worked out 

 of the hard substance of a hollow bone, on 

 one side hard and smooth and on the other 

 somewhat spongy; its form is peculiar. In 

 front, it has a head shaped like the head of 

 a snake, with a slit at the point for the inser- 

 tion of a blade (without nail-hole). To the rear 

 its body is narrower and more slender, flattened 

 from the upper and under side. One of the 

 edges runs out into a wingshaped lateral barb, 

 found on the left side of the head when what 

 is presumably the upper side is turned up- 

 wards; this lateral barb is flat, sharp-edged 

 and pointed. The whole body from the lateral 

 barb to the rear end, on the other hand, is 

 more rounded, being elliptical in cross jsection. 

 Seen in profile, the central part of the head 

 curves considerably. The lower part of the 

 Iv Ш piece has an incision running half way round 

 and producing a tenon, whittled off towards the 

 point, and l'5cm in length; this tenon bears 

 traces of arbitrarily carved figures and rough- 

 nesses, as if it had been meant to be lashed 

 or inserted in a socket, the roughnesses serving 

 to give a firmer purchase. 



I have not been able to find either in 

 p. Mason, Murdoch, or Nelson any arrow the 



Bone head оГ a spear head of which resembles this specimen from 



or arrow (same as in ^ast Greenland. 



PI.XVl)üuiiholm.'/7. 



In Boas^) is seen an arrow-head from 



') Boas I, 005, fig. 444. 



