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end of the centre part in these pieces has a hole pierced in it 

 so a^ to enable it to be hung by a loop over the place where 

 the woman works on the platform in the hut. These thimble- 

 guards, which were found on Skærgaardshalvo, are very small 

 (from 3*8 to 4*8 cm in length), when compared with those used 

 by the people of Ammassalik, but the West Greenland specimens 

 in the National Museum at Copenhagen^) are, taken all round, 

 not larger than these from North East 

 Greenland, 



On these double hooks the Eskimo women 

 hang their sewing-rings of skin^) which they 

 place on their fingers while sewing. A sewing- 

 ring of this kind was found by Ryder ^) in 

 the same part of Greenland. 



Inv. Amd. 49 (Fig. 23) is a one-pronged 

 fork for meat or blubber. It is a thin piece 

 of bone, 21 cm in length, triangular in cross 

 section, slightly curved. At one end there 

 is a fairly large hole (for hanging up), in the 

 other it is irregularly bevelled or worn away. 

 The best -preserved parts of it have still 

 fairly smooth sides. 



Inv. Amd. 50 and 51 (Fig. 24) are two 

 wooden hooks, evidently intended to be hung 

 Fig. 24. Blubber hooks "P> Probably over the lamp in the house, 



of wood. Skærgaards- or over a fire-place, as they are thickly 



halvö. Ч2. , , 



sooted. One of them has at the pomted end 



two barbs, like those of an arrow, back to back, with sharp 



points, whereas the point proper is blunt. 



1) There are many old specimens of this type of thimble-guards from West 

 Greenland in the National Museum in Copenhagen (Nat. Mus. cabinets 

 84, 91 and 92). 



^) Skin thimbles of this kind are found illustrated, for instance, in Boas 

 I, 524, fig. 473. 



") Ryder 334. 



