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G. Holm. 



and the two low figures in the bottom-most row but one represent 

 aperketeks, which, according to the description, are furnished with 

 claws. On the line-board fig. 49 the figures in the top and 

 bottom rows are meant to represent tornarsuks, as] likewise the three 

 lowest figures on the model of the throwing-stick. These figures are, 



however , certainly 

 quite conventional. 



The hinder part 

 of the body of a tor- 

 narsuk is described 

 as resembling that 

 of a seal, and is al- 

 so found depicted as 

 the tripartite or bi- 

 partite ornament 

 which represent the 

 hinder body of the 

 seal. The same tri- 

 partite ornament is 

 seen higher up on 

 the line - board on 

 either side of a male 

 figure. Similarl}^ on 

 the little drinking 

 vessel fig. 281b there 

 occur several mythi- 

 cal figures, the lower 

 part of which repre- 

 sent the conventional 

 hinder body of the 

 seal. 



On the wooden 

 brims and on top of 

 the eye-shade no. 5 

 (fig. 46) there is an 

 ornament consisting of two round figures, carved in bone and nailed 

 on to the wood; similar ornaments are also found embroidered on 

 the skin brims figs. 51 and 315, being cut out of white skin and sewed 

 on to the dark skin. Presumably these eyes which are found on 

 brims and shades have some symbolical meaning'). 



Fig. 47. Oval relief ornaments (from Plate XXXV in "Med- 

 delelser om Grønland" X). 



') On two oar.s from Port Clarence there occur similar ornaments (Nordenskiöld : 

 "Studier ocli forskningar" pag. 346). 



