The Angmagsalik Eskimo. 419 
us that he has "treated of three kinds of Eskimo implements which have 
hitherto been the object of particular attention on the part of ethnogra- 
phers”"; he has thus had the work of other writers as a guide if needful. 
As regards the remainder, he has not had the advantage of such aids, 
and restriets himself also to a merely geographical arrangement of the 
material. 
It is only fair to remark that these chapters are at least richly illu- 
strated; 6 out of the 9 harpoon heads shown are shown three or four 
times each. This does not mean that they are presented from as many 
different points of view; the difference is in several instances restricted 
to the background, which is in one case white, in another black: the 
white makes the better picture. In Fig. 14, p. 381, we have a flake 
of stone, seen from two sides, concerning which the Editor observes in 
the text: “The specimen shows no trace of polishing or finishing so that 
it is uncertain whether it is an artefact at all, and whether it has ever 
been in use”. 
These sections are further marked by a strictly systematical order, 
almost too striet, perhaps, at times, as when we find, in Fig. 13 p. 381, 
under “Stone implements” the blade of a woman’s knife, the remaining 
portion of which is given in Fig. 21 p. 403, in the geographically arranged 
part of the book. 
On p. 347 we are told, with regard to one of the harpoon heads 
from North-East Greenland, that it “resembles very much a West 
Greenland type of harpoon head” in proof of which the Editor 
quotes SVENANDER? 40, Fig. 4 The resemblance to the illustration in 
question is certainly striking; SVENANDER tells us, however, expressly, 
on the opposite page (p. 41), that Fig. 4 represents one of the objects 
collected by Dr. Hammar in North-East Greenland. The resemblance 
is thus rendered less remarkable, and the connection with West Green- 
land disappears. With regard to this same harpoon head, we are further 
informed that the blade “as is ”(sic) “seems, was also wedged into the 
slit with small pieces of iron”. 
Here again, I am unable to concur in Mr. THALBITZER’s opinion: 
the present appearance of the object is due to splitting of the metal 
through the action of rust, a phenomenon very generally known. 
The fragments from a tow-line, presented in illustration as points 
of Ituartit harpoons, have been dealt with in the foregoing: it only 
remains to add that the Editor might have avoided this, as well as other 
errors, if he had been content to keep to the matter in hand, instead 
of dragging in extraneous museum objects. And if Mr. THALBITZER had 
omitted the passage on p. 448 to the effect that the Norwegian ethno- 
1 THALB. I, р. 386. 
? GUSTAF SVENANDER: Harpun-, Kastpil- och Lansspetsar fran Väst-Grönland. 
Uppsala och Stockholm 1906 (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar 
Band 40, No. 3). 
PH hs 
