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��Three-barbed harpoons show certain peculiarities which are due to the presence of two notches at the base of the long face. Here the decoration al- ways begins with two lines running up from these notches (figures 21, d '; 22, d,fr

The fundamental dif- ference between the orna- mentation of the walrus harpoon and the whaling harpoon is, therefore, that in the former the orna- mentation developed on the faces, while in the lat- ter it always developed on the sides. This is due to the fact that the two barbs of the walrus harpoon made it necessary to give the long face a wider sur- face; the decoration was then applied to this sur- face and to the opposite side. Only single - barb walrus harpoons show lat- eral decorations which are similar to those of the Hc"d whaling harpoons (figure .in«;)- f ,"poi«oi i s «f«Vy u -h.i«. fnjm&j 22, b, c). The remarkable

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^T 1 '™'" OD,Sc ' Mieh ", '°- S " ■*■'**■ individuality of form of the most southern har- poon is illustrated in figures 20, £■, and 22, d. The decoration on the back of figure 20 t g, was observed on two specimens. Posst-

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