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able number both from the east (cf. inv. Ä7nd. 87) and the 

 west coast, represent, in my view, the special Greenland type 

 of this otherwise so widely diffused implement. These flattish 

 bone tubes, quaintly carved and often ornamented, are old- 

 fashioned needle-cases, the other accessories which originally 

 went along with them having been lost or destroyed in the 

 earth. Inv. Amd. 61 from North East Greenland is particularly 

 interesting, as corresponding exactly in type to the form known 

 from West Greenland. 



Inv. Amd. 62 (Fig. 36) is a piece of carved 

 wood, in form like a shaft, cylindrical, ll'5cm 

 in length, cross section 2"5 cm in diameter. At 

 both ends there was originally a rounded knob, 

 a little thicker than the centre part, whittled off 

 all round at the inner side so as to form a well- 

 marked shoulder. Both the knobs are highly 

 weathered, one of them being quite corroded, 

 though the traces of its shoulder are still visible. 

 The object can therefore not have been very 

 much larger than it now appears to be. 



The implement bears a resemblance to the 

 Fig. 36. Wooden 

 handle (object coss bars (as a rule made of ivory), mentioned 



unknown). Skær- by Nelson^) and Murdoch ^), belonging to large 

 gaar s a vo. з. fj^r^^g^ ^^^ which serve as a handle for raising 

 them. Nelson also tells us of an isolated cross bar of this 

 kind from St. Lawrence Island in Bering Strait, which is made 

 of wood^). This parallel is, of course, extremely dubious. 

 On the other hand there seems to be no grounds for hesitating 

 to compare this object with certain cylindrical pieces of wood 

 from West Greenland in the Riksmuseum at Stockholm (inv. 

 Pfaff, sect. 48). These are a little thicker in the middle 



1) Nelson 145. 



2) Murdoch I, 247 (Fig. 249). 



3) Nelson, PI. 56a, fig. 31. 



