452 



of Scoresby Sund thus forms an interesting contribution to our 

 knowledge of this prehistoric implement in Greenland. It is 

 the bone piece of an adze of a true Eskimo type. Only a very 

 few specimens of the same type have been found in Greenland, 

 and none intact or complete. A sharp blade (of stone or iron?^ 

 must once have been inserted in the aperture at the bottom, 

 and the whole piece attached to a curved haft (of wood?) in 

 such a manner that, while the bone piece was lashed to the 

 broad end of the haft, the thin end served as a handle, lying 

 cross-wise to the edge of the blade. — Perhaps it is a wooden 

 haft of this kind, for a small adze, which was found in East 

 Greenland by die Zweite Deutsche Nordpolarexpedition (in the 

 Museum für Völkerkunde, IVA, 205, Berlin)^); it is made of 

 wood, 14*5 cm long, with four holes in the broad end, and 

 line-grooves from the holes out to the edge"). 



As far as North East Greenland is concerned, inv. Amd. 

 76 is an interesting addition to our knowledge of the tools of 

 this primitive population. Ryder ^) also found in Scoresby Sund 

 five worked whale bones, which he pronounced to be parts of 

 adzes, and one of which (National Museum Lc. 1401) is of a 

 similar type to this one, while the others approach more close- 

 ly to the other types (the 2"*^ type: National Museum Lc. 1388 

 and 1401). But inv. Amd. 76 is the most beautiful and ela- 

 borate specimen we possess. 



Inv. Amd. 77 (Fig. 47 d) from Cape Tobin, is a drill con- 

 sisting of a cylindrical stick of wood (23 cm in length), tapering 

 towards the upper end. An iron point (the remnant of a nail?), 

 2 cm in length, has been stuck in a crack-like slit in the 



1) Koldewey, 603, fig. 14. 



^) The same kind of hafting of adze-blades also prevails among the Coast 



Indians south of Alaska; see Niblack PI. 23. 

 ■') Ryder 325—326. Scoresby also believed himself to have found two 



axes at Cape Stewart: "Two axes made out of bone were picked up". 



(Journal 214). 1 do not know where these axes are now. 



