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exception (inv. Amd. 21), ail grave finds. Besides the objects 

 brought home, there were found in the graves 1 wooden tray, 

 1 wooden ladle, a number of worked pieces of wood, 1 frag- 

 ment of a soapstone pot, and two fragments of lamp bowls, 

 one of them of soapstone, the other of a soft kind of gneiss; 

 these objects were not taken in the boat owing to lack of room. 

 In the enumeration of the objects found four graves in all are 

 mentioned, one of which was considered to be a child's grave ; 

 above it a toy sledge {inv. Amd. 27) was found. Most of the 

 objects were discovered in a little stone chamber built by the 

 side of the three adult's graves. To judge by the nature of 

 the objects, one of these must have been a man's grave and 

 another a woman's. For the finds consist in the one case of 

 man's implements, harpoon heads, a drill, part of a lance, in the 

 other of woman's paraphernalia (woman's knife, bodkins and 

 bead ornaments). 



Inv. Amd. 27 (Fig. 17) is a model of a sledge made of wood, 

 found above one of the children's graves under some flat stones. 

 It consists of two runners, 30 cm in length, and 3'5 cm in 

 height (without bone shoes or vestiges of them), and four 

 loose cross-bars, averaging 9 cm in length, 3"5 cm in breadth, 

 which have been secured by a lashing on to the runners. Without 

 doubt, one or more of the cross-bars are missing. There were 

 no traces of the uprights. The upper edges of the two runners 

 are straight, without upturned tips; their basal edges curve 

 upwards towards the fore end, and the curve begins at a dis- 

 tance of 8 or 9 cm from the end of the tip, which practically 

 means that about two-thirds of the runner glides over the firm 

 snow, while the remaining third does not touch it. At the rear, 

 the runner is rectangular. The wood is of uniform thickness 

 behind and in front, so that the under surface of the runners 

 is of the same breadth at either end. 



Both the upper and under edge of each runner is cham- 

 fered obliquely, which shows that the vertical planes of the 



