420 



Inv. Ämd. 59 and 60 (Fig. 32 a and b) consist of five 

 'beads' carved in bone, belonging to different ornaments or 

 implements. 



Two of them are elongated, circular in cross-section, at- 

 tached to each other by the aid of two eye-forming clasps 

 which grip each other. The mode of the attachment seems to 

 have been that one eye was pressed through a slit in the other. 

 There appears to have been a third link, as one of the two 

 has the remains of an eye at the free end. 



Inv. Amd. 60, on the other hand, is complete, as neither 

 of the two clumsy beads which are attached by their eyes to 

 the quaintly formed central link, have terminal eyes at their 

 free ends. The body of the central bead has been flattened 

 laterally, and almost has the form of a thick disk the edge of 

 which is cut straight on two opposite sides, which are con- 

 nected by a bored hole. 



Quite similar beads were found by Nathorst (Hammer) at 

 Cape Franklin in North East Greenland, in a grave in which 

 the body of apparently a little girl was buried ^). 



Interlinked bone beads, or short bone chains of this 

 kind have hitherto been known only from Alaska, where they 

 are frequently attached to the thick end of bodkins, as orna- 

 mental means for hanging up. At all events, I have not suc- 

 ceeded in finding any objects more closely resembling them^). 



It is interesting to note that the art of linking together 

 fine bone objects of this kind was known among the Eskimo 

 of the north-east part of Greenland, as well as among those 

 of the Bering Strait. 



Inv. Amd. 61 (Fig. 35). This curious object is a shaft-like 

 tube made of bone, with two thick and two thin opposite walls, 

 the implement being oval in cross section, while the cavity of 



^^) Stolpe, PI. 6, Fig. 19. 



'^) Nelson 107, and PI. 46; cf. PI. 43 and 52. — Hoffman PI. 65, Fig. 1 and 

 especially PI. 41. 



