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been prevented from slipping through the hole by a knot at 

 one end; this knot is made in the true Eskimo fashion by a 

 slit having been cut at the end of the line and the end then 

 doubled back through the slitM- 



Length of the bottom piece 23-5 cm. Its breadth 7.1 to 

 7.4 cm (fragment). Height of the side lOcm^). 



Museum für Völkerkunde. Berlin. 



Figs. 92 and 93. Two bodkins, or pins for the "ring and 

 pin" game, made of bone. Both have a human face carved 

 out in the thick head. A little further down there are four 

 or five annular cuttings. Cf. inv. Amd. 33 — 44. 



Length about 14-5 cm. North West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfafif. Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



Fig 94. Bone haft of a woman's knife, made of a block 

 of bone, all in one piece. At the bottom of the thin legs 

 holes have been bored to receive the lashing for the stone 

 blade (missing). Cf. inv. Amd. 45. 



Length of the handle (horizontal measurement) 7 cm ; 

 length of the legs 8*5 cm. North West Greenland. 



Inv. Pfaff. Stockholm Riksmuseum. 



Fig. 95. Wooden dish of the same type as the ordinary 

 whalebone dishes [pertaq)^ consisting of an elliptical bottom 

 bordered with a flange, and a thin strip of wood bent in a 

 corresponding form. The two overlapping ends of the strip 

 have been connected with the aid of two double rows of wooden 

 nails. The bottom has no holes perforated in it, but in the 

 shoulder above the elliptical flange on which the strip which 

 forms the sides of the dish reposes, there are nine holes for the 

 nails which secured the strip to the bottom piece. Cf. inv. Amd. 53. 



The size of the bottom: 14-4 cm to 184 cm. The height 

 of the side: 4 to 45 cm. 



') Cf. description in Mason III, 206. 



^) The measurements given in Koldewey p. 648 are based on a miscon- 

 ception of the way in which the parts found fitted together, 

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