453 



lower end. A low shoiilder-like projec- 

 tion, which passes right round at the 

 lower end close by the slit, indicates 

 that there used to be a wrapping round 

 this part. 



The implement is common in all 

 Eskimo districts M, but has not been previ- 

 ously found in North East Greenland. {}] 



Inv. Amd. 78 (Fig. 47 e) from Cape 

 Tobin, is a drill bow of white bone with 

 holes in both ends for fastening the strap 

 with which the drill was set in motion. 

 The length from point to point is 47 cm; 

 the thickness of the bone in the middle 

 of the curve is I'ocm. The bow is a 

 little thicker at one end than at the other. 

 It is very carefully worked and smoothly 

 polished. I shall describe it, imagining 

 it lying flat on the ground. At the thin 

 end (pointing up in the illustration) a flat 

 segment has been cut off in the horizontal 

 plane, through which a hole has been 

 bored in a vertical direction; a short 

 oblique groove, probably due to the fric- 

 tion of the taut strap, points towards the 

 inner side of the bow downwards. A 

 little within this groove there is a small 

 hole, probably the commencement of a 

 perforation. At the other end of the bow 

 a concave segment has been cut off in 

 the vertical plane, executed by removing 

 the soft mass of the bone. The two 



M Nelson PI. 37; Mc. Guire I, 719 fT.; Murdoch 

 I, 176 to 179 and 189. 



Fig. 47. 

 .Set of a bow drill. ^U. ' 

 a-b-c {inv.Amd.28,29,30). 



Drill caps of bone. 



Skærgaardshalvo. 

 d (inv. Amd. 77). Wooden 



drill stick with iron 



point. C. Tobin, 

 e (inv. Amd. 78). Drill bow 



of bone. С Tobin. 



