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in a transverse hole in the tooth. The blade has originally been semi- 

 circular or even convex but bj^ chipping off the upper edges along the shank 

 and the blade itself the present shape has been obtained. The chipped iron 

 has undoubtedly been used for sewing needles (cf. p 485). The knife from 

 Nualik of fig. 227 6 has evidently undergone the same chipping, though the 

 result has been different with regard to shape. 



Fig. 224 has an iron-blade, the obliquely curved shape of the edges 

 being probably due to wear. Fig. 225 is a beautiful specimen of the low, 

 flat type, a bone-haft with a long groove on the under side, into which a 

 blade (of stone or bone? cf. fig. 229) must have been inserted. North of the 



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Fig. 227. Two Avomen's knives from Nualik. (Amdrup coll.\ 



VA 



Щш Ш 



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Flg. 228. Haft of ivory from 

 Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). 



Fig. 229. Scraper of wood aud bone 

 from Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). 



Ammassalik district, at a place not exactly given, Amdrup found quite a sim- 

 ilar haft (Amdrup coll. 134). Fig. 227a and b from Nualik have distinct marks 

 of use on them; on «, for example, are some hairs (of seal-skin?) still stick- 

 ing in the rust or clotted blood. The same is the case with several of the 

 women's knives Amdrup found near the same place. They all have iron 

 blades, several of which are of European make like b. Nevertheless, this 

 type very much resembles some of the ulos of stone (slate) found very far 

 north on the east coast'). It is a question whether the sha])e of the iron 

 has been copied from the stone or the reverse. The latter is hardly prob- 

 able. Fig. 228 is a deleclive haft of beautifully polished ivory with a number 



') Solberg (1907) figs. 4fj-4i). 

 (1900) pp. 4ß0— 4K1. 



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