450 Thomas Thomsen 



a place about 74° 20' N. lat. ^ From Cape Tobin also we have a 

 roughly fashioned wooden bowl, of larger size, and of rather rect- 

 angular outline. ^ 



Another type of vessel commonly found in Greenland consists 

 of an oval wooden bottom, round which a broad belt of the same 

 or other material is bent to shape, and the ends joined, forming a 

 tub-like receptacle with perpendicular sides. At Angmagsalik, the 

 sides are now mostly fashioned from thin slips of wood; formerly 

 in West Greenland, whalebone was commonly used, and occasionally, 

 when available, birch-bark. 



The Danmark Expedition found several of the bottoms of such 

 vessels, but in no case were the sides preserved. It may therefore 

 be supposed that they were not built with wooden sides, but the 

 more perishable whalebone used, as it is known to have been from 

 earlier finds in North-east Greenland. ^ 



The size varies greatly; At Snenæs, house 406 and Rypefjeldet, 

 houses 522 — 24, bottoms were found measuring 29 cm. by 185 and 

 165 respectively.* In the stone-built deposit belonging to grave 529 

 at Rypefjeldet lay a bottom piece (L. 3080) 185 cm. long, the remains 

 of the vessel in which the articles deposited had been placed. The 

 bottoms of some quite small boxes were picked up in house 398 at 

 Snenæs (L. 3872, 77 x 4 cm.), in house 131 on Renskæret (L. 3466, 

 68 cm, long) and in house 141 on Maroussia (L. 3329, 55 x 36 cm.). 

 Of a rounder form is the somewhat larger bottom-piece from house 

 132 on Renskæret (L. 3498, Ю'З x 87 cm.). A similar difference in 

 size is noticeable in the bottoms of such boxes found by Ryder at 

 Scoresby Sound.'' 



These two types of vessel are, as far as I am aware, the only 

 ones which have been found in the untouched region of North-east 

 Greenland; the coopered vessels built up with staves are first met 

 with so far south as at Skærgaards Halvø, Scoresby Sound. ^ The 

 square wooden box, with nailed sides, found by the Germania Ex- 

 pedition on Jackson Island,'' should doubtless also be regarded as a 

 product of southern influence. It resembles exactly the little chests 

 used by the men at Angmagsalik for smalls odds and ends,*^ and is 

 the only one hitherto found in North-east Greenland. 



The hollowed wooden spoons and ladles, as found by several 

 expeditions'', are not represented in the "Danmark" collection. 



1 Christiania Museum, No. 10290, 25-2 X 12-7 cm., 4-5— 5-5 cm. high. - Thal- 

 BiTZER I, p. 455, Fig. 51. ^ At Skærgaards Halvø (Thalbitzer I, Figs. 26 and 28). 

 * L. 3825 and 4055. ^ Ryder I, p. 334. ^ Thalbitzer I, Figs. 25 and 27. 



' KoLDEWEY, p. 649. 8 Thalbitzer II, Figs. 288—289. » Ryder I, Fig. 28; 



Stolpe, PI. Ill, Fig. 10. 



