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or two breaches in this regularity (cf. inv. Amd. 67 — 68). Can 

 it be the keel of a miniature sledge for a child (in that case 

 a fairly large toy)? Or may it possibly have been the bone 

 mounting on the edge of a kaiak paddle, or on the edge of a 

 throwing-stick? 



Inv. Amd. 115 (Fig. 73), Gape Borlase Warren, seems to 

 be the fragment of a thick ivory mounting, rather finely worked. 

 In its well-preserved, smoothly polished surface a few oblique 

 scratches are visible. A transverse hole for a nail, 8 mm in 

 diameter, shows like an indentation at the edge of the broken 

 piece. 



Inv. Amd. 116 and 117 (Figs. 74 and 75), from Cape Bor- 

 lase Warren, are fragments of sledge shoes with the usual 

 holes bored for nails. Most of the wooden pegs are still stick- 

 ing in the holes in the larger piece. The holes are, as usual, 

 bored obliquely to each other; the distance between the mouths 

 of each pair of holes is about 3 cm on the under side of the 

 shoe, of the same holes on the upper side (that which faces 

 towards the under surface of the sledge runner) 2 to 2*5 cm. 



The larger fragment is highly decayed, and only a small 

 part of the smooth bottom surface has been left undamaged. 

 The ends of the two tree-nails which are stuck in it have 

 been worn smooth, the rest being frayed, as if the bone had 

 been broken with violence. The under side of the smaller 

 fragment is well-preserved, quite smooth, with some slight 

 scratches along it. 



Cf. Amd. 67 and 68. 



Inv. Amd. 118 and 119 (Figs. 76 and 77), from Cape Bor- 

 lase Warren, are two hollow bones, split by drill-boring, which 

 it was probably intended to use for some implement or other. 



One of the bones (of narwhal tusk) shows traces , not 

 very marked, of the boring, and the bored holes lies from ^/a 

 to 1 cm apart from each other. The boring of this bone must 

 have required more force than that of the other (fig. 76), where 



