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irregular form of which is due to its being the result of an 

 accident. Originally, the front side must, of course, have con- 

 tinued right down to the bottom of the implement, and the 

 opening merely debouched in the surface of the base, forming 

 a slot. To judge by the part which remains, the base, must 

 have had a narrow surface of 3"5 cm in length and 0*8 cm in 

 breadth; into this debouched the aperture of the slot, rect- 

 angular in cross section, for the insertion of the stone celt of 

 the axe. If this celt filled the opening, it must have penetrated 

 a little over 2"5 cm up into it. The two inner surfaces of the 

 slot converge into one another at the bottom, so that its area 

 is hardly 1*5 cm by 0*6 cm, whereas the mouth of the hole 

 is 2"2 cm by 0*6 cm in cross section. 



This implement may be compared with an adze, with stone 

 blade attached, from Niaqornak in Umanak fjord in North 

 West Greenland, in the National Museum at Copenhagen (Lc. 

 780—781), illustrated in Solberg's "Beiträge", PI. 7, which 

 according to this author is 'one of the most interesting of 

 Greenland antiquities'. The block of bone has been cut out 

 of a reindeer horn, just as is the case of an adze from the 

 lower Yukon in Alaska described by Nelson^). There are several 

 finds from West Greenland of adzes belonging to two or three 

 different types, which in the main resemble those known from 

 Alaska; and another adze from West Greenland, which exactly 

 corresponds to inv. Amd. 76, of a slightly different type from 

 the foregoing, is likewise illustrated inSolberg^), who also gives 

 illustrations of a series of stone-blades (celts) for adzes. He does 

 not mention the three bone heads of adzes in Pfaff's collection 

 in the Riksmuseum at Stockholm, of which I give illustrations 

 in the Appendix figs. 100, 101 and 102. 



It may be gathered from all these illustrations that the 

 adzes in general use in Greenland had the cutting edge at 



1) Nelson 92, and PI. 39, fig. 1. 



2) Solberg 48—49, PI. 7, fig. 2; id. PI. 8. 



