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Whetstones of black or reddish brown slate (rarely jasper) are 

 very common. They are always nearly of the same type i. e. a flat 

 longish stone, in transverse section either triangular (figs. 219d,e, f, and 

 220), square (figs. 218c, 219a, b,c) or quite flat (fig. 218Z> with a hole 



a b ' с 



Fig. 218. Whetting stones. (Holm coll.). ^la. 



a 



d e f 



Fig. 219. Wlietting stones. (Greenl Administration coll.). V-^. 



Fig. 220. Whetting stone. (Amdrup coll.). 4->: 



in which a skin-strap with a bone-peg as handle is fastened). Fig. 218c, 

 brought home by Holm in 1885, is a more magnificent object, the 

 stone being inserted in a wooden haft carved like a dog(?). The 

 two drill-like implements in fig. 190 are (according to Johan Peter- 

 sen) whetting irons for women's knives whereas men's knives are 

 always sharpened on whetstones. 



