The Angmagsalik Eskimo. 
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Inv. No. | List I List III 
31 Bodkin, or marline spike, of bone. | Bodkin-shaped wound plug of bone. 
33—44 | Bodkin and needles. Bodkins. 
55—56 | Drum handles, 2, of bone. | Two handles of bone with finger- 
|, “Tests. 
62 | Wooden handle. Handle-like object (cross piece of 
| a bladder float ?). 
72 | Wooden hammer-like implement | Hammer-like implement (maul) 
| (blubber-beater?) made of a crooked branch. 
80 | Wooden handle of a skin-scraper. | Womans knife (scraper). 
97 | Fragment of a wooden implement. | Head of a wooden implement 
| (fragment of a snow beater). 
99 | Shaft-like fragment of a wooden Handle part of a wooden imple- 
implement. ' ment (snow beater or blubber 
beater). 
104—105 | Miniature foreshafts of harpoons, | Foreshaft like fragments (or toy 
2. harpoons?). 
Such inconsistencies cannot but create a feeling of uncertainty in 
the mind of the reader. Have we here, as in the figures above referred 
to, but a series of errors due to negligence? Have the words “and needles” 
under 33—44 merely been omitted in List III? Or is the “wooden handle 
of a skin-scraper” a totally different object to the “woman’s knife (scra- 
per)” of List III, which must thus have crept in through some accidental 
error? 
The answer to such queries is in the negative. The difference in 
terms is due to the change which the Author’s opinion regarding one 
and the same object has undergone in course of time. An instance of 
this is furnished by Nos. 55—56. In his work of 1909, Mr. THALBITZER 
treats of these two objects, and comes to the result that they are drum 
handles, and further that they are the earliest finds of this type and 
material made in Greenland!. Аз to the features which the Editor here 
has regarded as of decisive importance, this may be seen from the fol- 
lowing passage” referring to one of the specimens: “The drum-handle 
type, however, is unmistakable; we see the finger-rests and the remains 
of the knob-like head”. These, however, would hardly appear to be the 
distinguishing marks of a drum handle, if we may judge from the dif- 
fieulty which Mr. THALBITZER experiences in determining how the drum 
is fixed to the handle. After having devoted nine lines of print to the 
discussion of the question as to which end of the handle should be fixed 
to the frame of the drum, he concludes: “I feel convinced that it is the 
broad end of the handle which carried the drum, though I am not clear 
as to the mode in which it was secured’”3, 
1 THALB. I, рр. 412—17. 
2 THALB. I, p. 417. 
с. -р: 416. 
