416 THoMAS THOMSEN. 
99—100. “Sundry objects (plaited sinew threads etc.)”. The sinew 
thread is now marked №. Г. 4947. The “etc.” presumably 
refers although only one number is allotted — to various 
small objects not noted in the list. 
In addition, the list delivered also mentioned “One dust 
cleaner” that is to say, an umiak cleaner, or as Mr. THAL- 
BITZER prefers to call it, a boathook, this being the very 
one shown in Fig. 83a р. 380 of Mr. THALBITzER’s work 
(L. 4940). Further, two dolls are also mentioned, repre- 
senting men on ski, (L. 4900—01); these are not included 
in the published list. The Museum has also received 1 drum 
(L. 4857), 5 undressed figures (L. 4878—82) including one 
jointed doll (vide p. 403) and four bone beads (L. 4949—50) 
which articles are not mentioned either in the list delivered 
to the Museum or in that now published. Finally, to com- 
plete the references made in the work to illustrations there 
given of objects in the collection, the following numbers, with 
those of the figures corresponding should be added: 
12 (Fig. 152c), 13 (Fig. 186a), 24 (Fig. 253e), 25—35 (Fig. 
2531), 36—38 (Fig. 285f and g), 43—44 (Figs. 321f and 322b), 
46 (Fig. 324b), 52—53 (Fig. 180b) and 71—78 (Fig. 378a). 
Among objects shown in the illustrations but not mentioned 
in the published list, we have also: One Umiak cleaner (Fig. 
83a) beads (Figs. 343a and b) and 1 drum (Fig. 360a). 
Mr. THALBITZER evidently attaches considerable importance to his 
collection, since he has seen fit to include a catalogue of the same in his 
work, at the expense of Horm’s and JoHAN PETERSEN’s, which are of 
far greater value; it would therefore be reasonable to expect that the 
catalogue given should be correct. The collection was not delivered to 
the Museum until three years after his return from Greenland; and 
one might suppose that he would thus have had sufficient time to. 
make himself fairly well acquainted with the material which he had 
brought over. Nevertheless, his illustrations show no less than 15 objects 
from this, his own collection, here attributed to others. Had he wished 
to refresh his memory, or to fill up possible lacunae in his notes, he could 
at any time have inspected the whole of the material at the Museum. 
The most correct method of proceeding would have been to draw up a 
list from the records of the Museum, or at any rate, to make sure that 
the list to be published agreed, either with the contents of the collection 
as preserved in the Museum, or with the list which accompanied it on 
delivery. The third list which now appears in his work serves no good 
purpose; rather, indeed, the reverse. 
