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Eskimo tent-place was discovered out in the open, though always 

 ice-61led, sea. In Skaergaardshalvö, which lies two degrees further 

 to the south, there was only found a very defective fore-piece 

 of a harpoon or lance {inv. Amd. 11). The latter has, like the 

 well-preserved loose bone-shaft of a lance which was found in 

 Dunholm {inv. Amd. 12), a double line-hole, and must thus have 

 been secured to the wooden shaft by a double-running line. 



The longest weapon head of bone {itiv. Amd. 13) which 

 was found in Dunholm has, on the other hand, only a single 

 line-hole. The flat form of the head and its light weight render 

 it doubtful whether it can have been a part of a lance; and 

 the line-hole and the form of the butt are hardly in favour of 

 its having been attached to a dart; all things considered, there 

 is more to be said for the first possibility; in this case it be- 

 longs to a primitive type of the Eskimo lance. 



Finally, there was discovered in Dunholm a curious shaped 

 weapon head with a slit for the blade, one lateral barb, and basal 

 tenon, which must, in my view, have been the head of an arrow, 

 or of a bird-dart (inv. Amd. 17). 



At the north corner of the mouth of Scoresby Sund, at 

 Cape Tobin, was discovered the lateral point of a bird-dart, 

 which in its main features represents the type common to all 

 Eskimo tribes. One feature of this point [inv. Amd. 20) — the 

 barb placed on its outer edge — confirms the impression we 

 had formed of two points with lateral barbs previously found 

 in North East Greenland, namely that there must have existed 

 a peculiar form of this bird-dart accessory in this part of the 

 Eskimo world, characterized especially by the barb on the 

 outer edge. 



Further inv. Amd. 18 and 19 were also found in these 

 parts, a fact which seems to indicate that the whaling-harpoons 

 from the more westerly Eskimo districts, with a fixed fore-piece 

 of bone, must have been known in North East Greenland. 

 This find confirms our impression that the former inhabitants 



