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placed eye. From the same quarter come 5 bodkins of quite 

 the same type (6 to 9 cm in length), now at the Ethnographical 

 Museum at Christiania (inv. Nos. 6947 — 5960). — This type 

 seems to be peculiar to Greenland. It is true, we occasionally 

 meet with annular incisions in bodkins or marline-spikes 

 outside Greenland, but there they are more richly ornamented 

 and have knob-shaped heads, which are often representations 

 of animals heads M. In PfafiTs collection from West Greenland, 

 in the Riksmuseum at Stockholm, there are two so-called ajagak 

 sticks (Sticks for the ring-and-pin game) which have these 

 annular incisions round the upper thicker part, and the upper 

 ends of which are cut in the form of human faces (see Appendix 

 figs. 92 and 93). 



Inv. Amd. 45 (Fig. 21) is a bone haft belonging to the 

 blade of stone described under the heading of inv. Amd. 23; 

 they are the parts of a woman's knife (ulo) of a highly differenti- 

 ated type. The haft consists of four pieces, which are grooved 

 into and partially nailed to one another. 



At the bottom is the blade-holder (see fig. 21) or the 'haft 

 proper', an elongated thinly cut bone with two parallel side 

 surfaces and two diverging end surfaces. In the under edge 

 of this haft there is a comparatively broad open slit, into 

 which the stone blade fits. At the bottom of the slit are seen 

 two holes, which might indicate that a blade other than 

 that which is there now was once inserted there, and fastened 

 in a diff'erent manner. This perhaps also serves to explain 

 the large aperture (8 mm in diameter) which is seen at one 

 side of the holder, just where one of the legs of the upper 



M See e. g. Nelson 193; cf. PI. 46 and 48 (description pp. 106—107). For 

 simpler types see Murdoch I, 318, fig. 325 (flat, without rings, with la- 

 teral eyes). Another type of needle, triangular in cross section, thickest 

 in the middle, where the eye has been pierced, tapering towards the 

 tip at both ends, was found by Die zweite deutsche Nordpolarexpedition 

 (I, 605. flg. 19Ь); the same type is known from the Central Eskimo 

 (Iglalikl. See Boas, 1, 523, fig. 472 and II. 94, fig. 136. 



