Ethnographical collections from Elast Greenland. 499 



celts, also one sticking in the adze'). It will be seen from the figure that 

 on both sides the edges are beautilully ground, though partly broken in 

 ilg. a. The discovery of these celts near Ammassalik disprove the assertion, 

 that the Ammassalikers do not know or at any rate did not know the use 

 of adzes ^). 



Fig. 209, a fragment of a polished blade (of slate), can be reconstructed 

 by continuing the right edge up to the median line of the figure and b}»^ 

 filling up the left side, so that we have a symmetrical figure almost of the 

 same shape as fig. 210./ only double the size. Thus completed, the figure 

 would show a high and broad blade with a large basal tang for insertion, 

 shouldered off" from the main pai4 at right angles, leaving two barb-like 

 shoulders on each side. The blade was considered by the collector to have 

 belonged to a whale harpoon-head of bone in which it must have been 

 inserted in a cleft at the tip. But from the shape it may as well have 

 belonged to a large knife (of the joana-type)^). 



Fig. 210a is a small point of a hard and clear, almost transparent stone. 

 This as well as the following ib,c,d,e) have undoubtedly been used as arrow- 

 heads, f has a characteristic rounded shape (not pointed), and if not an 

 unfinished arrow-head must be considered to be the blade of a lance or a 

 scraper, g and h on the other hand are of the knife-blade type. They seem 

 to be of the same material as the preceding, formed by chipping from the 

 median line to the edges and not polished, i is evidently made of softer 

 material (slate) and has a nice polished surface, j and к are probably made 

 of the same material as / with median ridge and basal tang and are un- 

 doubtedly arrow-heads. — Lastly, / is a harpoon blade of slate of a flat tri- 

 angular shape and without basal tang, a common Eskimo type of inserted 

 stone blade for harpoon heads. The constantlj^ repeated feature, namely, 

 the large, triangular facet from the centre to the basal line, made alike on 

 both sides and perforated Ъу two holes (or sometimes only one) for the 

 nails, probably onlj-^ occurs in the East Eskimo regions*). The same feature 

 is even sometimes found in Greenland in inserted bone-blades, as for ex- 

 ample in a harpoon head and in a detached bone-blade found by Amdrup 

 near the Skærgaard Peninsula (Amdrup coll., nos. 6 and 8°). 



Figs. 211 a and b show two characteristic stone implements slightly 

 curved (especially b) with sloping working edges (turned upwards in the 

 figure) and polished surface; b having besides a median ridge on the upper 

 side. The latter consists only of a single flake of the same character as 

 those known from northern places (Kekertak) in West Greenland ''), and 

 the connection with the remote stone art over there is hereby established. 

 Regarding the shape and use, the implements figured may possibly be re- 

 ferred to one of the pygmy implements mentioned previously (fig. 206 &), 

 thus being a sort of skin scraper. One might feel disposed, however, to con- 

 sider them as a kind of borer or bodkin ^), especially b, whereas a has some 

 resemblance to a boot sole creaser (tigussaiit^ cf. under fig. 214). 



1) Solberg (1907) PI. 7 and 8; pp. 48—49. Thalbitzer (1909) fig. 46; pp. 446—452. 



2) Ryder (1895) p. 138. 



^) Cf. the stone-blades of this kind of knife described by Solberg (1907) PI. 4; and 

 similar types from Alaska. Murdoch (1892) pp. 151 — 152, figs. 99—100; and 

 Nelson (1899) pp. 171—172; PI. LXV, fig. 3 and PI. XLVII. 



•*) Solberg (1907) PI. 10. Boas (1888) p. 506, fig. 448 and (1907) p. 387, fig. 181 rf. 



5) Thalbitzer (1909) p. 351, fig. 5; PI. XV, figs. 6 and 8. 



6) Solberg (1907) pp. 38—39; figs. 12 and 13. 



'') Id. ibid. p. 46; PI. 6, figs. 9, 12, 17-20 especially. 



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