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which the polishing has been executed over the whole surface 

 (so far as the latter has been preserved unbroken), rendering 

 it perfectly smooth and bright. 



Inv. Amd. 22 is an oblong, flat stone (in linear measure- 

 ment circa 6'5 cm X 2 cm) of reddish (iron-holding) clay- 

 slate, found in a grave in Skærgaardshalvo. Like the foregoing 

 specimen, it is truncated at one end, and has probably been 2 

 or 3 cm longer. Its sides are perfectly flat and smoothly pol- 

 ished; one of its edges is shaped like the edge of a knife, but 

 is blunt (worn away?); the other is 4 or 5mm in thickness. 

 The stone is of the material out of which the Greenland grind- 

 stones are usually made; in form it resembles the blade of a 

 woman's knife [ulo]. 



The hole which has been preserved at one end has been 

 perforated from both sides, two conical openings, one of 

 which is bored rather crookedly, having been arranged to meet 

 half way. The German North Pole Expedition^) found in North 

 East Greenland a woman's knife of reddish clay-slate. It is 

 probable that inv. Amd. 22 was the blade of a knife of 

 this kind. 



Inv. Amd. 23 is a blade belonging to the bone handle 

 of a woman's knife (ulo); the handle will be described in detail 

 under the heading of inv. Amd. 42. The blade, which was 

 found firmly stuck in the basal slit of the bone shaft is a 

 short, silicious, fairly soft, stone (clay-slate), 8'5 cm in length, 

 quite flat, or with very slightly convex sides, which have been 

 rather roughly polished, only the two converging surfaces (bevels) 

 on either side of the sharp edge being smoothly polished. The 

 back of the blade is flat and unwrought. One of the ends of 

 the blade has been broken off. 



The two holes in the blade have been bored from two 

 sides. In one of them is still sticking part of the twisted sinew 



M Koldewey I, 601, fig. 5 a. 



