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list. One or two other instances of metamorphosis will be mentioned 
later on; for the present, we may proceed to consider the catalogue of 
the second collection, viz. THALBITZER'S. 
When Cand. THALBITZER in 1909, on behalf of the Committee for 
the Investigation of Greenland, handed over the collection to the National 
Museum, it was accompanied by a catalogue drawn up and signed by 
the collector himself, marked “Copy” and dated Copenhagen 1907, with 
a further note: “Delivered to the National Museum 19 12 1909, W. T.” 
This list does not altogether agree with the one now published; it 
did not, by the way, altogether agree with the contents of the collection 
as delivered to the Museum. And in view of the fact that a published 
list, if allowed to pass without remark, might well be regarded as invol- 
ving an obligation on the part of the Museum to produce the objects 
therein cited when called upon, it will be necessary to make some cor- 
rections. 
List. No. 
6—10. The two lists agree, but 6 specimens were received. 
47—50. “Two masks carved of wood”. There were three (L. 4853—55). 
55—67. “Dolls dressed in skin clothes”. These 13 numbers were noted 
in the list as “abt. 12”. There were however 21 (L. 4858—77 
and L. 4899). 
71—88. “Various toys (nodding or pecking birds, puzzle with movable 
beads on a string, buzzes, ajagaq, tops, balls)’. In the list 
delivered to the Museum these 18 numbers are represented 
by the following: Two toys (noggataait) (Г. 4912—13)! 2 ditto 
birds (L. 4909—10) 4 wing buzzes (imittitwaain).? One ajagaq 
game (L. 4911) — 3 tops (There were four: L. 4903—06). 
Three balls (L. 4916—18). One toy with two beads (puzzle) 
(L. 4945). Thus the published list gives 18 articles, the list 
delivered to the Museum 16, whereas the actual number 
received was 15. To these should be added, however, one 
object not noted on the list delivered, viz; a jumping animal 
(L. 4919) so that the Museum also received 16 pieces in all. 
89—98. “Images of animals carved of wood or ivory”. This lot is 
noted in the delivery list as “Various animals carved in wood” 
i. e. not inivory. Fifteen of these were delivered to the Museum, 
not 10 as stated in the published list. 
1 Similar to that shown in Fig 376c as “bull roarer”. The Eskimo name 
is not stated here, as in the case of the other toys, so that the List deli- 
vered to the Museum furnishes new information on this head. 
2 The original 2 in the list had been altered to a 4; there were, however, 
but two: L 4907—08. 
