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engaged in whaling in these parts. — I must also make men- 

 tion here of the three quite similar foreshafts for harpoons or 

 lances which were found in Dunholm (inv. Amd. 73, 74, 75), 

 and which will be described more in detail when I come to 

 describe the other objects found there. These implements, 

 moreover, when compared with the flat, square 'caps of bone' ^} 

 which are otherwise used as foreshafts throughout the whole 

 of Greenland, will be seen to be of a type foreign to that 

 country. They approximate much more closely to the foreshafts 

 of the West Eskimo pattern. 



Murdoch I, 223. 



