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holes for securing: attached ornaments of ivory (cf. inv. Amd. 

 107 — 109), such as we are familiar with in the implements 

 from Ammassalik, or else have been intended for a lashing of 

 whalebone like that mentioned by 0. Mason ^) in ido handles 

 from the mouth of the .Mackenzie River (inv. Amd. 86, pag. 473), 



In this ulo two types are blended or joined into one; the 

 ulo which consists of a stone blade inserted into a simple bone 

 or wooden haft, and the nlo the stone blade of which 

 is attached to a handle formed by two legs united 

 by a cross-piece ^). 



The last of these types no doubt occurs only 

 in Greenland, where perhaps a chance formation of 

 a piece of reindeer horn used for a haft — as in the 

 specimen from West Greenland (inv. Pfafif in the Riks- 

 museum, Stockholm) illustrated in the Appendix, 

 6g. 94 — may have given rise to its invention. It 

 is extensively used for ulos particularly at Ammas- 

 salik^), whence 0. Solberg*) holds that it perhaps 

 originally came from East Greenland and was brought 

 thence by traders to the West coast at a later date. 

 .\t any rate it is interesting that this type has been 

 found so high to the north on this coast as Skær- 

 gaardshalvö. (Cf. another ulo type in inv. Amd. 80). 



Inv. Amd. 46, 47, 48 (Fig. 22). These are three 

 thimble-guards of the usual Greenland type, which 

 is also found in Alaska'^). Fork made of 



This type consists of a double hook with barbs ^'one. Skær- 



gaardshalvö. 

 back to back, made of a flat piece of bone which by ^ 1/2. 



two incisions is formed like two hooks back to back. The upper 



M Maeon I, PI. 56 and 57. Cf. Stolpe 1. 



*) Ма8оп (VI. 585) does not give these varieties, as he is chiefly occupied 

 uith the diJferences in the type of handle within the West Eskimo district. 

 ») Holm PI. 19. 

 *) .Solberg 52. 

 ■) Nelson 110. and PI. 44. figs. 16 and 18. 



