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to fit neatly the blade of slate, which lies in a cut on the 

 under side and is held in place by a neat lashing of a fine 

 rawhide string". Except for this last feature (the lashing), 

 the implement is of quite the same type as inv. Amd. 80. 

 Finally, we find this type carved in ivory in a handle of a 

 scraper from Cape Darby in Alaska, illustrated in W. J. Hoff- 

 man M, who in the form sees an imitation of a whale's tail: — 

 'the front end has a deep incision in which v/as placed one 

 time a flint scraper.' The form of the handle 

 is quite like the North West Greenland type, 

 only that it is made in ivory instead of in 

 wood. Most of the other skin-scrapers from 

 Alaska which have been described are of a 

 peculiar form, unknown from Greenland^), and 

 yet not so different from the type figured here 

 as to disguise the continuity between the forms. 

 Inv. Amd. 81 (Fig. 52), from Dunholm. 

 This is the most notable needle or bodkin in 

 the collection, very beautifully worked in ivory, 

 polished, elegant, and symmetrical, and withal of 

 a peculiar type. It is 14 cm long, cylindrical 

 in cross section, tapering from the middle to- 

 wards the point (which is much worn or broken 



ofif) and having a concave narrowing around the Fig- 52. Bodkin 



■ jii /. .1 ■ .1 ^ ii i .of ivory. Dun- 



middle of the upper part, so that the top again , j 



is thicker, still thicker than the middle of the 



needle. 



The eye is particularly remarkable; it is placed laterally 



and bored in a curve, or formed by two independent conical 



borings which meet at their bottom. The mouths of (he path 



are elongated (1 cm high) and placed edgewise, facing almost 



towards the same side, near each other on either side of a 



Ч Hoffmann. PI. 35, fig. 8. 

 '') Murdoch I, 294—299. 



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