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sula Amdrup found three double hooks of the smaller and compar- 

 atively broader type mostly known from West Greenland^). From 

 Alaska many different types of this implement are known (double 

 and single hooks, often ornamented)") and also some corresponding 





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Igpi; 



Fig. 250. Needle skins and thimble guards. Holm со 



exactly to the Greenland forms. These hooks, which carry the 

 sewing rings, are in Alaska always fastened to the skin-strap of a 

 needle-case, which lends strong support to the supposition that the 

 triangular needle-skin of the Ammassalikers is only an expanded 



') Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 405— 40G; fig. 22. Nordeiiskiöld (1885) p. 484. 

 -j Nelson 11899) PI. XLIV and p. 104. 



