380 



regarding the types of the ulo^ the reader may be referred to 

 the excellent papers of 0. Mason ^), and my occasional remarks 

 under the heading of inv. Amd. 45 and 80. 



Inv. Amd. 24 is a thin flake of gray clay-slate found in 

 Dunholm, 85 cm in length and 2 cm in breadth, with a clearly 

 marked, though blunt, median ridge on one of its surfaces, 

 and with sharp edges. The terminal edges, which have 

 been broken off, are on the other hand, not sharp. The spe- 

 cimen shows no trace of polishing or finishing so that it is 

 uncertain whether it is an artefact at all, and whether it has 

 ever been in use. 



Inv. Amd. 25 is a more or less globular stone of circa 

 3"5 cm in diameter, with a segment broken away on one side, 

 and hollowed out. The mouth of the kettle-shaped cavity thus 

 produced is 2 cm in diameter. The interior of the cavity is 

 globular, like the exterior surface of the stone. The specimen 

 does not correspond to any part of any known Eskimo im- 

 plement, and it is by no means easy to say whether it has 

 been used as toy (a pot), or as an amulet, or as a tool. Per- 

 haps it was only the curious globular form of the natural stone 

 {a form extremely rare in Greenland) which gave occasion to 

 the fabrication of this artefact. 



Inv. Amd. 26 is a thin piece of gray clay -slate (circa 

 2'5 X 2'6 cm) with flat, roughly polished sides, and a sharp 

 turned up edge fringing it on two sides. On the two other 

 sides the stone is broken off, in such a manner that one of 

 the two perforated holes which lie close to one another at 

 a distance of 2 cm, has been broken in half. These two holes 

 are bored obliquely and from both sides. 



There is a slight vestige of polishing along one part of 

 the curved edge, but only on one side of the blade. 



Probably the fragment of a knife-blade {ulo). 



1) Mason, 1 and VI, 585. 



