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GENERAL REMARKS. Few, and to a great extent frag- 

 mentary as these stone implements from North East Greenland 

 are, they nevertheless add their fresh testimony to the stone 

 artefacts previously known from these parts. In the Museum 

 fur Völkerkunde in Berlin there are 9 wrought stones brought 

 from East Greenland by "Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt", 

 among them 2 ulo stone blades, 2 arrow-heads, 1 or 2 knives 

 of pronounced Eskimo stone age type (the same type as those 

 from Point Barrow illustrated in Murdoch ^), as well as some 

 nondescript specimens. Further, Ryder declares himself to 

 have found 3 arrow-heads^), and 3 lance stone-heads^), all 

 of slate, triangular, pointed and two-edged, one man's knife 

 of stone ^) and 9 women's knives {ulos) of stone ^), and a 

 scraper of flint '^j (all of them in the National Museum at Co- 

 penhagen). The Swedish Expedition under Nathorst has in its 

 collection at least 2 women's knives^) of stone and 4 one- 

 edged knives^). In the Ethnographical Museum at Christiania 

 there is a fragment of a woman's knife ^), and a one-edged 

 stone knife from North East Greenland, 17'5cm in length. 



Taken together, these stone implements from North East 

 Greenland convey the impression that the Eskimo who first 

 arrived on this coast were merely treading in the steps of their 

 forefathers of the stone age. To form any conclusions as to 

 how long this stone-age culture held its own in these regions, 

 would now be premature. It may be a mere coincidence that, 

 comparatively speaking, so little light js shed on this point 



M Murdoch I 1.Я, (Ig. 107 a and b. 



-') Ryder 309, fig. 8. 



•'I Id. 316; 315, flg. 15. 



♦) Id. 322, fig. 21. 



^) Id. 330, fig. 29. 



«) Id. 333, fig. 31. 



") .Stolpe, PI. 3; .Solberg 55, flgs. 46 and 48. 



") Solberg PI. 9, flgs. 4 to 8; Stolpe PI. 4. 



«I Solberg PI 9, fig. 3. 



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