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Gabriel  G-ustafson. 
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an  arm  consisting  of  four  parts  hanging  in  each  other,  several 
human  figures  with  moveable  limbs  &c,  all  cut  out  of  a  single  block 
of  wood. 
I  have  in  my  attempts  to  find  a  key  to  the  interpretation  of 
the  interesting  "ring  puzzle",  travelled  a  long  way  from  its  North- 
ern place  of  deposit,  and,  unfortunately,  without  yet  arriving  at 
any  definite,  certain  conclusion.  What  we  may  regard  as  the  result 
of  the  investigation  is,  that  in  Persia,  in  our  own  times,  there 
exists  a  similar  apparatus  which  must  have  some  connection  with 
Fig.  12.    Puzzle  from  Sætersdalen. 
ours,  and  that  ours  must  probably  be  regarcled  as  originally  of 
foreign  oxtraction;  also,  that  what  has  been  stated  entitles  us  to 
surely  hope  that  by  continued  investigations,  in  the  south  or  in 
eastern  countries,  the  true  explanation  may  be  finally  attained ;  further 
that  a  common  Mohammedan  apparatus  is  possibly  related  to  them,. 
but  can  then,  originally,  have  had  no  connection  with  Islamism; 
that  yet  other  objects  in  some  degree  comparable  with  our  "ring- 
puzzle"  are  found  in  Eastern  Asia,  possibly  a  testimony  of  im- 
pulses  from  Mohammedan  countries;  and,  finally,  that  there  are 
