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One side of the blade is slightly concave, the other convex; 

 thinner towards the edge than in the middle ; none of the edges 

 are sharp. 



Two holes have been pierced in it, one of which passes 

 through the back and upper part of the blade ; the other, at 

 the extreme end of the handle, is particularly remarkable, as it 

 diverges from the nether edge of the handle in two directions, 

 one branch of the hole leading out on the under side of the 

 projection, right by the point, the other on its upper edge 

 a little further in. Perhaps the craftsman wished on account 

 of the heaviness of the knife thus to obtain a firmer hold for 

 the loops with which the knife was hung up or fastened to the 

 kaiak, than a single hole would afford. 



The type of this implement from Cape Tobin corresponds 

 exactly with four kaiak-scrapers from the more northerly parts 

 of the same coast found by Nathorst (Hammar)^). One of them 

 even has a hole pierced in the upper corner of the blade, and 

 the end of the handle curves in a downward direction, just as 

 in inv. Amd. 70. — From the same region as these there is in 

 the Ethnographical Museum at Christiania (inv. No. 10039), 

 a kaiak-scraper of the same type, a very beautiful specimen, 

 carved out of white (grey) bone, the blade rounded at the tip, 

 broadest at the butt; flat, or slightly bulging, sides, with a 

 slightly concave upper edge and a slightly convex under edge; 

 the handle, rhomboidal in cross section, unevenly cut on the 

 two sides, curving downwards and ending in a downward in- 

 clined projection, wherewith the hand obtains a better purchase 

 on the handle. At the rear of the upper edge there is a 

 straight section cut off which has been replaced by a piece of 

 bone or wood (which has been losti held in place by means of 

 rawhide thongs through three holes under the section; side 

 grooves lead from the holes up towards the empty space. 



') Stolpe PI. 4, fig. 12. 



