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part of the ulo has been grooved in, so that its foot is exposed 

 in the opening (there is a break in the haft just underneath in 

 which the lower end of the leg is visible). A little higher up, 

 over the two small holes in the side of the 'haft proper', which 

 are intended to be used in fastening the blade by means of a 

 sinew lashing, are seen the nails in two other holes in the side 

 which hold this bottom piece (the 'haft proper' along with the 

 inserted blade) fixed to the legs of the handle. 



The legs are elliptical in cross section (with the broad 

 side in the same plane as the blade), very slightly tapering 

 above to enable them to fit into the holes in the top piece of 

 the ulo. The lower ends of the legs are whittled off into two 

 flat, thin tangs, the shoulders of which are chamfered in such 

 a manner, that when they are pressed firmly down, the legs 

 are supported in the position in which they are seen in the 

 illustration, resting against the upper edge of the blade-holder 

 and at the same time fitting exactly into the slots on the under 

 side of the top piece. These slots in the under side of the top 

 piece are very deep, one of them, probably owing to an error 

 in the working, having passed right out to the opposite side of 

 the piece, where the upper end of the leg is seen sticking up 

 in an elongated, irregular opening (cf. fig. 21b). 



The 'top handle', or the upper piece of the ulo, is like 

 the 'haft proper', an oblong, slightly curved bone, elliptical 

 in cross section, placed horizontally and with the broad side 

 at right angles to the plane of the blade. The surface of this 

 interesting piece is specially characteristic in view of the three 

 rows of holes (not bored through) which extend along it, and 

 the two slightly concave grooves, which are cut across them at 

 either end, more or less parallel to the concavely cut terminal 

 surfaces of the piece (the concave chamfering of the end sur- 

 faces expands infundibularly downwards towards the under side 

 of the bone). These regularly disposed holes in the upper 

 surface of the piece must be considered to have been nail- 



