492 



Inv. Amd. 106 (Fig. 69), from Gape ßorlase Warren), is a 

 sewing-needle of ivory, with a cross section of varying shape, 

 being flat and lancet-shaped at the broad end, just like the 

 single exception [42] in the group of bodkins mentioned under 

 the heading of inv. Amd. 33 to Ü, and circular in cross section 

 at the pointed end. The point itself is rather blunt, in which 

 respect the piece resembles the good-sized plump type of bod- 

 kins (or needles) described above. 



The eye is placed laterally at the extremity of the broader 

 end. 



Although this is the only specimen of this type 

 which is known to me from Greenland, I am never- 

 theless inclined to see in it the normal type of a needle, 

 the ordinary bone nail before the time when, with the 

 introduction of iron, modern nails came into use. It 

 corresponds well with the old bone nails from Alaska, 

 described by Murdoch^), which were kept in a quill 

 case. Two of these are described as round-pointed, 

 Fig! 69. 1*8 to 1*9 inches long, one of them is more slender, 



Ivory flattened and expanded at the butt. (The third is 2'4 



needle 

 „ g ■ inches long and has 'a four-sided point like a glover's 



läse War- needle', cf. inv. Amd. 44.^ fragment.) 



ren. '/2. jjjig gjjjj Qf Amdrup's, like so many of his other 



finds, goes to attest the primitiveness of the culture of the North 



East Greenland Eskimo and its close affinity with the original 



Eskimo culture between Point Barrow and Greenland. 



Inv. Amd. 107, 108 and 109 (Fig. 70), from Sabine Island, 

 are three flat pieces of ivory carved in the form of marine 

 animals (a seal, two whales) each with two holes bored in the 

 median of the piece. 



These pieces correspond exactly to those which the Am- 

 massalik Eskimo use (or used till recently) for the ornamenta- 



*) Murdoch I, 318, figs. 325 and 326. 



