The Angmagsalik Eskimo. 387 
of Fig. 351, the three amulets there shown being all — as any ordinary 
visitor to the Museum might see from the labels attached — brought 
home by Pastor C. RÜTTEL, together with those marked c, d, e and f 
in Fig. 350. 
Two pieces in the last-named figure, however, viz. a. and b. are 
from Horm's collection. As regards a, we are informed in a note": “The 
same object is seen in the illustration on p. 45”. There is no illustration 
of this — or of anything else — on p. 45; we do find, however, in Fig. 45 
on p. 117, a far better reproduction than the second edition on p. 632. 
Fig. 350b was found by Ногм in a grave at Ungudlik in the Juliane- 
haab distriet, and is thus outside the sphere of the work in question. 
This action of the Author in calmly attributing to the Нотм col- 
lection some hundred and fifty objects cannot be passed over by the 
Museum without comment, more particularly since the objects in question 
are taken from the collections of others. The men who have entrusted 
the results of their work to the care of the Museum would have good 
grounds for complaint on seeing their best items reproduced in a publi- 
cation as belonging to another?. The Museum authorities, it need hardly 
be said, regard it as their duty towards research to afford anyone seeking 
material for scientific work the fullest liberty to make requisite search 
and selection of material; it is nevertheless an equally obvious duty to 
watch over the interests of the collectors in such cases as the present. 
Apart from this, however, energetic protest must also be made on 
behalf of the science of ethnography itself, which forms part of the Mu- 
seum’s sphere of work. 
The name of С. Hom is permanently connected with the discovery 
of Angmagsalik, and future research will very justifiably take the repro- 
ductions of his collection as representative of the culture of Angmagsalik 
in 1884, when the natives were first brought into direct contact with 
1 THALB. II, р. 633. 
2 It is unfortunately hardly probable that even this correction will entirely 
suffice to obviate the consequence of the inaccuracy. A characteristic in- 
stance for the difficulty experienced in repairing an error once published is 
furnished by the case of Е. W. Netson’s “The Eskimo about Bering Strait”. 
In the course of printing, the texts beneath two of the plates were un- 
fortunately transposed. The author did what he could to prevent the 
threatened confusion by inserting a slip in the work, with the necessary 
correction, to be pasted under the figures in question. Nevertheless we find 
that W. THALBITZER, in a work of popular character published in Sweden, 
entitled “Gronlandske Sagn om Eskimoernes Fortid” (р. 56) reproduces one 
of these plates with the erroneous text: “Eskimo from Alaska throwing a 
bird dart” the man in the picture having a seal spear in his hand. Such 
an error is naturally not likely to be further propagated by writers having 
any knowledge of the difference between these two common weapons; 
works are, however, frequently published by men having no very intimate 
acquaintance with the subjects of which they treat, whereby mistakes are 
circulated abroad. 
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