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the mouth of a hole, 2 cm deep. In the lower of the large 

 piece (b) there is a semicircular indentation. The bevelled 

 surfaces (on the sides) bear traces of the cutting tool, just as 

 there are marks of borings in the upper edge of one of the 

 specimens. 



I imagine that these specimens are toy miniatures of the 

 same implement as inv. Amd. 73, 74 and 75, thus representing 

 foreshafts of harpoons. It must be observed that the tang 

 here has been cut from opposite sides and is without any 



Fig. 68. Miniature foreshafts of harpoons. Cape Borlase Warren. 4i. 



bored holes; it may have been intended to be wedged into the 

 end of the Avooden shaft. Perhaps these specimens have never 

 been inserted in any shaft, but are unfinished fragments. — 



They should thus correspond in function to the ivory head 

 from Baffin Land described by Boas ^), which, however, is attached 

 to the shaft in a different manner from these toy objects. 



Ryder-) discovered a similar specimen in Scoresby Sund, 

 which he pronounced to belong to a walrus harpoon. 



•) Boas I, 489, flg. 419—420. 

 *i Ryder 336. fig. 36 b. 



