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the tube is cylindrical (0*7 cm) in diameter. The implement is 

 made of a single hollow bone (narwhal tusk?), its length 

 8"5cm; its cross section at the thickest end 3 cm by l'5cm. 

 There are no holes pierced in the walls of the tube, but about 

 at the middle of the body four conic sections have been re- 

 moved, whereby its upper surface has been divided in the 

 curious manner shown in the figure, bringing to light an inner 

 layer of the bone with convex edges, which appear in the two 



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Fig. 35. iNeedle-case of bone. Skærgaardshalvo. 'Is. 



bow-shaped incisions between the intact parts of the outer 

 layer, or between the upper and lower ends of the tube; these 

 last are connected on either side by a narrow bridge in the 

 outer layer, narrowest in the middle, expanding uniformly above 

 and below. 



It is interesting to find in this part of North East Green- 

 land this extinct type of implement, which has often been found 

 before in graves in the north of West Greenland, but which is 



