of the hole (which runs right tlirough only in one of them), 

 and especially the very long hevelling at the butt end ; the be- 

 velling must have been intended for fastening them to another 

 piece of bone, or to a shaft. They have no slits for blades, 



Fig. 9. Miniature bone fore-pieces of whaling harpoons. 

 Cape Tobin, ''ig. 



and thus cannot have been the fore-pieces of sealing lances. 

 Nor do they look like the fixed bone heads of bird-darts M: 

 a partial resemblance to the head of an arrow from Alaska 



M Murdoch I, 211, fi2. 10.0; Nelson PI. .',1 and .50. 



