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of yellowish-brown ivory (narwhal tusk), length 8" I cm; greatest 

 breadth 2'5 cm, narrowest in the middle, expanding towards 

 both the mouths of the tube, but most upwards. On both sides 

 of the narrowest part a flat wing has been carved out. 



A piece of the edge both of the upper and of the lower 

 mouth has been broken off. 



The ornaments are: — a little incised cross on the front 

 of each wing; a little circular aperture on the back of them; 

 four similar apertures (thus not holes bored through) a 



E. Ditlevsen delt. 



Fig. 56. Needle case. Dunholm. */5. 



quarter turn from each other a little below under the upper 

 edge of the tube; finally both on the front and on the back 

 of the tube are carved two symmetrically curving pairs of lines, 

 which follow the line where the wings join the sides of the 

 tube. The surface of the implement is beautifully polished and 

 carefully worked. The implement must be compared with im. 

 Amd. 61, which I set down as a needle-case. Its form diverges 



