440 



There is a single hole in the lower corner at the back of the 

 blade, presumably intended for a strap. 



It is a striking circumstance that the characteristic handle 

 with the downward bent projection recurs in several of the 

 stone-knives found in North East Greenland^). 



This approximation in type between these two kinds of 

 implements, which are not known from other Eskimo districts, 

 gives us the impression that in North East Greenland the one- 

 edged stone knife, which is otherwise well-known from other 

 districts, has been influenced in this respect by the form of 

 the kaiak ice-scrapers. 



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Fig. 43. Wooden bottom? Dunholm. ^/з- 



We find in the northern part of West Greenland ice-scrapers 

 of the same type as those in North East Greenland. Here 

 again we come across a special Greenland variety of an imple- 

 ment^) otherwise common to all the Eskimo tribes. 



Inv. Amd. 71 (Fig. 43) from Dunholm. Part of a wooden 

 implement of unknown use. It is a flat piece of wood, oval 

 in circumference, longest diameter 21cm, shortest 15cm; the 

 thickness of the wood is about 3 mm. One side of this piece 



M See the illustrations of both types side by side with each other in Stolpe, 



pi. 4, figs. 11 and 12. 

 ^) Cf. the snow knives of the more westerly districts, Boas I, 539; II 29 



and 95; Nelson pi. 94; Murdoch I, 305. 



