The Angmagsalik Eskimo. a 
There remains then no other source but the principal MS, A.M. 
364 Fol.t True, the entire text of the work in question consists of but 
192 written pages, of which, again, only 169 are numbered, so that p. 263 
does not exist; the quotation in question will, however, be found on 
p. 166. It is unnecessary, by the way, to guess at the age of this MS, 
as it is fully dated? We may, on the other hand, hazard a guess 
that it is the date of compilation of the MS. 1689 which has betrayed 
Mr. THALBITZER into quoting the year 1789. Marrutas SCHACHT, by 
the way, gives, at the commencement of his work, a long list of 
writers, which Mr. THALBITZER would have done well to make use 
of, when attempting to give a synopsis of early works on the subjeet 
of Greenland. 
On pp. 635—36, the Editor quotes OLEARIUS and SCHACHT in evi- 
dence of the use of wooden dolls as idols in western Greenland in the 
17th century. Mr. THALBITZER here states as follows: “Some idols of 
this kind were brought to Copenhagen probably by the Dannell expe- 
dition in 1654”. 
The passage in OLEARIUS from which this is taken runs as 
follows: 
“Was der Griinlander Religion anlanget, hat man nicht erfahren 
können, wie es darumb beschaffen. Sie seynd ausser Zweyfel Heyden, 
und Götzendiener, wie dann einen solchen Götzen, welcher in der 
Strasse Davis vom Lande genommen, wir aus Paludanus Kunst Cammer 
bekommen. Ist aus Holtz grob geschnitzet, einer halben Ellen lang, 
mit Federn- und Haarfell bekleidet und mit kleinen lenglichten Thier 
Zahnen behenget” etc. °. 
This statement has been entirely misunderstood by Cand. THALBITZER 
and needs explanation. OLEARIUS” “wir” refers to the “Kunstkammer” at 
Gottorp, where he filled the office of librarian and antiquary. Patupanus 
is the Dutch physician BERNHARDUS PALUDANUS, whose “Kunstkammer” 
at Enckhuisen was celebrated in its time*. He died in 1633, aged 83, 
and the collection was subsequently sold by this heirs to Duke Frederik III 
of Gottorp, forming the nucleus of the ducal Kunstkammer. It was 
fetched by OLEARIUS in person in 16515, 
OLEARIUS, then, speaks not of several objects, but of one. This 
one was brought to Gottorp, not to Copenhagen, and brought, moreover, 
not from Western Greenland by DANNELL in 1654, but from some place 
1 As AM. 364 Fol. the MS. is cited also in P. Laurtpsen: Bibliographia 
Groenlandica (Medd. om Grønl. vol. 13). 
2 Dabam Carteminde Septimo Calend. Май Anni post reparatam salutem 
MDCLXX XIX. 
3 OLEARIUS р. 176 (cit. THazs. II, р. 683, Note 2). 
4 GEERART BRANDT: Beschriewing en Lof der Stad Enkhuisen. Blad 25—29, 
and A. I. VAN DER Aa: Biographisch Wordenbook der Nederlanden. 
5 OLEARIUS: Gottorfische Kunstkammer, introduction. 
