446 WILLIAM THALBITZER. 
the cases calling attention thereto!. For the purpose of my work, I had 
made every endeavour to obtain information as to all collections which 
might serve to illustrate the culture of Ammassalik, and obviously no 
one could be more interested than myself in knowing that there was 
a collection of Вурев’з from Ammassalik, and this, moreover, exhi- 
bited in the large East Greenland case in our National Museum. I was 
unable, however, to ascertain this fact, which appears to have been 
known only to the collector and the official ethnographer of the Depart- 
ment. I naturally supposed all the exhibits in this case, and particu- 
larly all such objects as occupied a prominent position there, to have 
originated from Horm’s expedition to Ammassalik, except where other- 
wise indicated by special cards. I did not doubt, for instance, that this 
was the case with the complete sets of men’s and women’s clothing in 
the centre, as shown in my Figs. 294 to 300 and 304 to 310. Hr. THOMSEN 
now informs me that I was here labouring under a delusion. True, I 
was right in taking the dresses as belonging to the culture of Ammas- 
salik, and it is likewise correct that Нотм collected a great number of 
them, but part of the material was, Hr. THOMSEN informs us, subse- 
quently contributed by RYDER and JOHAN PETERSEN. The same, I under- 
stand, also applies to a number of other articles anonymously exhibited 
in the large East Greenland case at the Museum, and shown in my illu- 
strations. My note: “Holm coll.” under the figures is thus in certain 
cases incorrect, owing to my not having been able to procure this in- 
formation earlier. 
It is likewise misleading when Hr. THOMSEN asserts, that “these 
three collections” — i.e. Hozm’s, RypER’s and Amprup’s — “together 
serve to ilustrate the culture of Angmagsalik at about the time of its 
discovery” (p. 382) — The statement is altogether correct only as regards 
Holm’s and Amdrup’s collections (the last-named from Nualik) both 
of which date from the time immediately before or immediately after 
the discovery of the Ammassalimmiut, whereas Ryder’s collection was 
hastily made eight years after Holm’s wintering there. 
By this I do not in the least mean to assert that Ryper’s collec- 
tion from Ammassalik is valueless; it is even probable that there may, 
among the duplicates in this collection of the Hozx collection, be found 
some new forms and variations characteristic of the East Greenlanders. 
It is unwarrantable, however, to rank this collection, got together in 
the space of a fortnight, and made up largely of duplicates and articles 
1 Only such portions of Ryper’s collections as were brought from Scoresby 
Sound were indicated by special cards in the museum cases, and have 
been made known to the public by Ryper’s own frequently cited work 
on the earlier Eskimo occupants at Scoresby Sound, in Medd. om Gronl. 
vol. 17 (1895) рр. 281—343. In my ethnographical description of the northern 
finds in the Amprup Collection (ed. 1909) I have given all due credit to 
this work of Ryper’s, and have also repeatedly referred to the same in 
my last work. 
