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winter house previous to starting upon the Inland Ice trip, I
came across some relics of the ancient people of this region
discovered by one of the men of the present generation while
digging in an old igloo at Kangerdlooksoah and brought by him to
me.
There was a lance head of bone the bone point of a harpoon,
a bone scraper, and a peculiar piece of bone some three or four
inches in length with a groove extending along a portion of one
side. It at once occurred to me that this was the handle of an-
other of these ancient knives, and in order, if possible, to deter-
mine the matter absolutely, I called in one of the old men then
visiting at my head quarters, and spreading the various articles
out upon the table told him I wished to know what they were.
Pointing to each one in turn he explained to me what they were,
and the peculiar shaped piece of bone was identified by him as the
handle of a man's knife the cutting edge of which had been com-
posed of fragments from the aerolites.
The length of the groove was only
inches and it would
seem that this knife must have long antedated those which Ross
saw in 1818, as the cutting edge of one which he figures is much
longer. Probably as the result of long experience the natives
had at the time of his visit become more expert in working the
iron and could detach larger flakes from the parent mass.
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