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narrow bridge. The hole seems to have been large enough 

 to permit of a narrow thong being drawn through it. The 

 nail has probably been intended for the sewing of large boat- 

 skins. 



Inv. Amd. 82 (Fig. 50) from Dunholm. A block of red pine- 

 wood, 12-5 long, which has been used for making fire. In the 

 middle of the upper flat side there is a conical aperture about 

 1 cm in depth (the diameter of the mouth is about 7 mm). 

 There are no traces of side-grooves. The interior of the aper- 

 ture is black with combustion. It is in fact the hole in which 

 the wooden drill rotated, the heat generated by the friction 

 causing sparks. Compare G, Holm's^) description of fire-making 

 among the Ammassalik Eskimo. 



The only remarkable point about the piece is that the 

 under side of it is so narrow that it has to be gripped firmly 

 when the drill stock is to be moved in the hole, to prevent 

 its overturning; this indicates that the fire-making set when 

 used in conjunction with this block must have been served by 

 two men in drilling. 



Inv. Amd. 83 (Fig. 51), from Cape Tobin, is a wooden 

 vessel, made of an elongated wooden block of spruce fir or 

 larch, which has been hollowed out. Its upper' edge forms 

 approximately a rectangle (about 30 by 16 cm), while the sharply 

 marked bottom edge (about 21 by 13 cm) approaches more to 

 the form of an ellipse. The side walls, which thus converge 

 downwards towards each other (and the two narrow ones more 

 than the two broad ones), have a thickness of about I cm; the 

 bottom is not much thicker, so that it is evident that the 

 hollowing has been very thoroughly carried out. The interior 

 of the vessel is in places very rough, and by its numerous 

 scratches and grooves shows manifest traces of the cutting 

 implement with which the excavation was performed. The long 



') Holm 70-71, PI. 24; Hough I, 555 1Г. II, 396-399; Nelson PI. 34. 



