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halvö. They have a length of from 8*5 to 13 cm. Ten (eleven) 

 of them resemble each other closely, being cylindrical in cross 

 section, tapering towards the point, which in all of them is 

 blunt, except in the fragment which has a point formed by 

 four short oblique cuts. Around the head end (the thick end, 

 circ. 1 cm broad in cross section) in most of them, has been 

 cut a series of from four to eight independent rings. Three of 

 the bodkins are without these rings. 



An eye for a thread is found on the flattened top of 10 

 of them (in that furthest to the left in the figure it has been 

 broken and replaced by a lateral eye); the eye is carefully per- 

 forated through a low projection on the flat top of the head; 

 a very fine and sharp drill must have been used in this per- 

 foration, which has been made from two sides, obhquely down- 

 wards, so that the perforated holes meet under the foot of 

 the projection. The hole thus curves a little downwards in the 

 middle. 



Only one of these bodkins (the next but one on the right 

 in the illustration) is of a somewhat different variety, being 

 flat like a lancet, though without sharp edges, and the eye is 

 produced by a simple lateral perforation through the broad end. 

 Cf. inv. Amd. 106. 



In North East Greenland, a needle similar to those first 

 mentioned, with a cylindrical body and with six rings in the 

 thick end, was found by Ryder ^) in a child's grave. The upper 

 part of it is flattened laterally, and the eye produced by a 

 transverse perforation. 



In the National Museum at Copenhagen there is a little 

 collection of 10 bodkins found by K. I. V. Steenstrup at Eqaluit, 

 near Ikerasak on the Umanak fjord in West Greenland. These 

 ten bodkins correspond to those from East Greenland both as 

 regards the rings round the thick end and the cacuminally 



') Ryder 333, and fig. 32a (National Museum at Copenhagen, Lc. 1426). 



