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seen. A whet-stone or scraper seems to have been used over a 

 small part of this surface, which otherwise is rough. The inten- 

 tion has evidently been to use the piece for some implement 

 or other. In the thick end there is a transverse hole. 



The previous expeditions M often found similiar half-finished 

 bones, which show that drill-boring has been used instead of 

 a saw to split off the blocks of bone 

 which were to be used for bone imple- 

 ments or utensils. The same procedure 

 was in older times also adopted on the 

 West coast, it must have demanded no 

 little patience. 



Inv. Amd. 97 (Fig. 62), from Dun- 

 holm, is a curiously formed flat piece of 

 wood labout 12 cm long), which looks 

 something like a weapon head. It is split 

 (by the action of frost or as the result 

 of pressure?) into two pieces. Its sides 

 are slightly convex ; the edges are roun- 

 ded, even at the extremity of the blunt 

 end. The resemblance to a weapon-head 

 is due to the two indentations which have 

 been made obliquely opposite to each 

 other. Close behind them is the com- 

 mencement of a fracture which has per- 

 haps carried off the lower part of the 

 implement. 



It is difficult to decide to what kind of implement this 

 fragment can have belonged. A weapon head of wood is other- 

 wise quite an unknown thing, and I do not know any Eskimo 

 implement of this kind, unless it be related to the kind of im- 

 plement I am going to describe presently, inv. Amd. 99. 



Fig. 62. Fragment of a 



wooden implement. 



Dunholm. M2. 



M Ryder 324; Koldewey 601; Nathorst 2.08— 260. 



