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to have been in general use in the Thule culture but not within the whole of the Eskimo territory, types which thus may be termed characteristic of the Thule culture.
An examination of the various Thule culture finds will show that there are certain types which almost always reappear, at any rate in the big finds; if these types are not in general use, and particularly if they are not in general use among the present day Eskimos, we have a right to include them among the representative forms of the Thule culture. As such we must reckon the following types, all of which are represented on fig. 1:
Thin harpoon heads with open shaft socket (the Thule types, fig. 1. 3-5); thin whaling harpoon heads (2); loose harpoon foreshafts with conical shaft end and a central or lateral line hole (1); heavy socket pieces for harpoon shafts (12); loose lance heads with open shaft socket (6); fixed lance heads with wedge-shaped shaft end and longitudinal grooves or side blades (11); bladder dart heads with barbs and conical tang (10); weapon points of baleen (14); baleen bows (17); arrow heads with conical tang with two knobs (7); bird harpoons (8-9); bola balls (13); side-prongs for bird darts, with barbs on both inner and outer sides (15); barbs for salmon spears, with bent over neck (16); broad snow knives with two shoulders (18); knives with blades in the sides (21); whittling knives, the handles of which are formed by lashing together two longitudinal pieces (19); mattocks (35); wedges (29); hand drills (20); ulos (women's knives) without tang (24); whalebone shaves (22); scrapers of caribou scapula (23); “winged" needle cases (28); lamps with rows of knobs near the front edge (32); oval soapstone cooking pots (33); earthern vessels (27); platform coverings of baleen (34); combs with narrow, ornamented handle (25); bird figures with human fore bodies (26); human figures with "amulet strap" (31); amulet boxes (30)%; certain ornamental elements (some will be seen on 28, others on 25).[1]
Besides these, the most characteristic and frequently occurring types, there is a number of forms which are only known from one of the Thule finds, but which for one reason or another are of particular interest: seal scratcher, baleen wolf killer, net and trap of baleen, cup-shaped scraper, ornamental pendants of ivory, chain, ornamental pendants of slate, the peculiar wooden handle. Then we have the characteristic, rich ornamentation, the semi-subterranean, round whalebone house, the stone graves, the conical tent, the
- ↑ Of the figured specimens 4, 6, 10, 11, 18, 18-21 and 80-88 are from the settlement find at Naujan, 1,2 and, are grave finds from Naujan, 8, 5, 14, 15, 17, 25, 26, 84 and 85 from Qilalukan-Mitimatalik, 12, 16, 28, 24 and 29 from Kuk, 7 and 27 from Malerualik, 22 from Aivilik and 28 from Port Harrison.
