Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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flatter and of a less regular shape. Fig. 216a approaches the cylindric 

 form, and it is thicker at the base than at the top. The basal plane 

 is rough owing to splintering. At the top there is a narrow trans- 

 verse hole, which has induced the finder to consider the stone a 

 sinker used in fishing. Fig. 217 shows a large stone of oblong form 



Fig. 215. stone hammer. Front and lateral view. Depot Isl. (Amdrup coll. 



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a 



Fig. 217. Stone hammer. 

 (Greenl. Administration coll. 



Fig. 216. Stone hammers. (Petersen coll.). ^/г. 



like a melon. It has a hole through the median axis, possibly be- 

 cause it may have been used as the driving-stone of a buzz (of the 

 same kind as in figs. 379 — 380). 



A hammer-stone of exactly the same type as fig. 215, from Southampton 

 Island in Hudson Bay, has previously been figured by Boas^). Also from 

 Alaska similar hammer-stones are known, both hatted and unhafted and 

 especially used as crushers to obtain the marrow of large bones. 



1) Boas (1901—1907) p. 379, fig. 173. Murdoch (1892) pp. 93. 182. Nelson (1899) p. 75. 



