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form, a single line with unilateral transverse bars is found in 

 a needle-case from Karsok (Ikamiut, Disco Bay?) in West Green- 

 land, where two oppositely curved 

 lines on the face along each lateral 

 edge of the needle-case correspond 

 to each other, just as the upper 

 edge is followed by a line of this 

 kind (see Appendix, fig. 96) ; the 

 combined form is seen in the 

 larger needle-case from Iginiarfik 

 (Egedesminde district). Appendix 

 fig. 97, and on a swivel, likewise 

 from West Greenland, the upper 

 part of which is bordered by the 

 ornament; the narrow convex sides 

 of this little implement are deco- 

 rated with a second ornament 

 running along them. These three 

 ornamented bone implements, all 

 of which belong to the Inv. Pfaff 

 in the Riksmuseum at Stockholm, 

 are the only ornaments carved in 

 bone which I know from West 

 Greenland. The type of this orna- 

 ment, both isolated and combined, 

 is very common in bone imple- 

 ments from Alaska^) (in a skin- 

 dresser, a grass-comb, a buckle, a 

 pipe-stern, a seal drag, bag handles, 

 a comb, mouthpieces, needle-cases, 

 kantag handles, drill bows, belt fasteners, buckles etc.) and is 

 designated as 'the fish trap or seal tooth pattern'^). 



Fig. 56. The. comb from Dun- 

 holm (same as fig. 55). 



Ditlevsen delin. 



') Hoffman 805-806; PI. 18, 23, 32, 52; 20, 26, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 50, 



51, 52; Nelson PI. 38, 43, 44; Mason I, PI. 63. 

 2) Hoffman 806. 



