Additional notes. 



THE manuscript of the present work was finished in November 1911 

 and was sent to Copenhagen in March 1912 for pubHcation, and 

 it is to be regretted that its publication has been so long delayed. In 

 the meantime I have had the opportunity of studying a much larger 

 material, belonging partly to my own collection, and partly to those 

 of others. This has not, however, had the effect of changing my 

 opinion on those points in which I differed from others, indeed, in 

 some cases, I am now in a position to give better and fuller examples 

 in support of my views. 



Moreover, by the courtesy of Professor F. W. Putnam, Cambridge, 

 Mass.; Professor F. Boas, New York; the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington; and the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York, I have been able to consult some 

 more recent American literature on the Eskimo tribes west of Green- 

 land. It is here my pleasant duty to express my cordial thanks for 

 this help. 



As regards the material culture of the Greenlanders as indicated 

 more particularly by their implements two important works have in 

 the meantime been published. The one is H. P. Steensby: Etnogra- 

 fiske og antropogeografiske Rejsestudier i Nord-Grønland, 1909, Med- 

 del, om Grønland, 50, 1912. In this the author has among other things 

 described the Rifle Bag, the Drift Rudder and the Shooting Screen 

 for Kayak, consequently, the description given by me in the present 

 work cannot be called the first. As, however, it supplements that of 

 Steensby in some points, especially, as regards the figures, I have let 

 it stand. 



The other is W. Thalbitzer's great and valuable work: The Am- 

 massalik Eskimo, I, Meddel, om Grønland, 39, 1914, in which the 

 author has firstly prepared and pubhshed a new edition, in Enghsh, 

 of G. Holm's classical studies on the East Greenlanders, and of such 

 works of other authors as are directly connected with them. Thal- 

 bitzer has thereby supplied a long-felt want and ethnologists outside 

 Scandinavia will feel very grateful to him. Moreover, Thalbitzer has 

 here given a most elaborate and copiously illustrated description of 

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