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23 July 1946 Duridas Hbr ., Devon Is. Among the 
bones on the beach, the commonest were of wllrus. 
I saw fragm e nts -of-dozens of skulls. There were 
qany fragment of ivory from the t usk s which the 
Eskimos had sawed into lengths and discarded the 
inf er io r po r t ions-.—Tdtadn't realized before that t 
the tusks were ho llo w (hollo w only at the upper 
end). Walrus bones seemed much heavier than the 
other bone s encou n te r e d^—They must be considerably 
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y ?,U. July 1946 Dundas Hb r. Thtrmounties brought 
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tusks'”and ail—--laiTcr; to their 
The ivory of the tusks. has 
considerable value to the Eskimo, and all the 
skulls we found - obi the lutichrliad the busks" broken 
out. The on ly si g ns of ..them are. the.^inferior 
sections which have been sawed off and discarded. 
"The skull the raounties brought us was filled w: : th 
. fly iiiaggota- and cleaning it was a dirty job. It 
was of a young female killed in June. 
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