Concluding Remarks. 



The culture of North-east Greenland, as it appears from the finds 

 made up to date, is mainly of the stone age type, the use of metal 

 being extremely rare. 



The Eskimos whom Clavering encountered in 1823 on the island 

 which now bears his name (Lat. about 74^^° N.) had the heads of 

 some of their weapons edged with iron, which he believed to be of 

 meteoric origin.^ At Little Pendulum Island, in the same latitude, 

 the Germania Expedition came across a knife with an iron blade, 

 the iron here being stated as "imported".^ From 73° 7', again, i. e. 

 Kjerulfs Fjord, which opens out near the base of Franz Josephs 

 Fjord, two pieces of iron were brought back by Nathorst.^ The 

 next finds of iron-edged implements occur more than 2 Va degrees 

 farther south, viz.; two knives at Cape Stewart (70° 27')^ and three 

 items: a harpoon head, a drill and a knife, from Cape Tobin (70° 24').^ 



These few finds comprise, as far as I am aware, all the iron 

 hitherto met with north of 68°, which degree of latitude roughly 

 marks the boundary between the Scoresby Sound district and that 

 of Angmagsalik. In the collection from the Danmark Expedition, 

 not a single piece of iron is found; as unique pieces of evidence 

 of its occurrence, however, should be mentioned the drill shaft from 

 Renskæret (76° 41')" and the two small axe-heads from the east shore 

 of Stormbugt. ^ At the same time it should be noted, that these 

 items stand alone among over 100 specimens of cutting, piercing or 

 boring implements: harpoon and arrowheads, points of other weapons, 

 men's and women's knives, drills etc., found by the Danmark Ex- 

 pedition, while the whole material from North-east Greenland col- 

 lected from various sources now amounts to probably somewhere 



1 Fetermanns Mitteilungen 1870, p. 326. ^ Koldewey, p. 605, Fig. 20, cf. p. 623. 

 3 Nathorst, p. 257 and p. 347, Fig. b. * Ryder I, p. 322, Fig. 21 a; Nathorst 

 p. 347, Fig. a. ^ Thalbitzer I, p. 347, Fig. 2, 453, Fig. 47 d and 455, Fig. 48. 

 6 Fig. 31, p. 439. ' PI. XVIII. 9-10, cf. p. 437. 



