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right angles to the handle, and were of three different types 

 as regards the manner of attaching the head to the wooden 

 handle. It is true that the latter is missing in all the adzes 

 found in Greenland, but a comparison with the adze types from 

 the West described, as far as Alaska is concerned, by Mur- 

 doch^) and Nelson ^) reveals its original existence. We under- 

 stand from these descriptions that the groove in the middle 

 part of inv. Amd. 76 is a bed for the lashing, which passed 

 through holes in the broader end of the handle; in this bed, the 

 thong is held in place, and the handle, moreover, as explained 

 below, is supported by the horizontal shoulder which borders the 

 top of the lower part of the bone in which the celt, or stone- 

 blade, was inserted. — Murdoch sees in this elaborate con- 

 struction of the adze a substitution for a simpler form 

 which is only known from Alaska, where the stone blade was 

 attached immediately to the handle. Inv. Amd. 76 thus ans- 

 wers to the first type of the second stage of development and 

 has an exact counterpart in Alaska^); the second type within 

 this stage we find in the already mentioned adze from North 

 West Greenland (National Museum, Copenhagen, Lc 714*) cf. 

 inv. Pfaff, Stockholm, see Appendix fig. 102), and this type also 

 is well known from Alaska''); in place of a groove the bone 

 head has two (or more) transverse perforations from the back to 

 the front side, through which the lashing passed. The third 

 Greenland type (Appendix fig. 101), has a single perforation from 

 the back to the front side, besides a deep round aperture (hke 

 a socket) at the top of the head; how it was fastened to the 

 shaft, can not be determined with certainty. 



This find of the Carlsberg Fund Expedition at the mouth 



') Murdoch I, 165-172. 



*) Nelson 91—92: as for the West coast of Hudson Bay of Boas II, 88, 



flg. 128. 

 ') Nelson 88, PI. 38, fig. 5. 

 *) Solberg PI. 7, fig. 3. 

 ") Mardoch I, flgs. 135 and 136. 



