PREFACE 
м this work, which 1 have called an Anthropogeographical Study, 
I have further carried out the scientific method and the consider- 
ations which I had already set forth in my preliminary paper on the 
subject “Om Eskimokulturens Oprindelse” which was published in 
Danish in 1905. The present work, however, must not be regarded 
as a mere translation of the named paper. The three introductory 
chapters have been revised, but their contents are otherwise mainly 
the same. As regards the following descriptions of the types of Eskimo 
culture, some of the chapters have been rewritten, and in regard to 
all the chapters I have as far as possible taken into consideration the 
results of the later expeditions and explorations. As regards the 
Polar Eskimo and the Greenlanders, I must in this connection mention 
my own observations and studies, made in the intervening time. The 
chapters following the description of types are, on the other hand, 
quite new, it having been possible for me to give a more elaborate 
argumentation for my results and to carry them somewhat further 
than I was able to do in 1905. Among the various things which have 
made this possible may be mentioned the important results brought 
home during the last 10 years by the Danish expeditions to the east 
and north coasts of Greenland, which have enriched our knowledge 
as regards an important and hitherto missing link in the chain of dis- 
tribution of the Eskimo. 
I wish to call attention to the fact that in citing authors I give 
only the name of the author and the Roman figures which in the 
Bibliography are prefixed to the titles of their works, when these 
number more than one. ‘Meddelelser om Grönland” is in most cases 
abbreviated to M. o. G. 
H. P. Steensby. 
