The Ammassalik Eskimo. 467 
Kialineq, far to the north of Ammassalik, where the family in question 
wintered during the year 1912—13 after the district there had not been 
visited by any of the natives since 1382. The wooden doll here found 
thus dates from the time prior to the arrival of Europeans at Ammas- 
salik, and supports the impression that dolls of this sort were made 
by the Greenlanders in ancient times. 
If Hr. THOMSEN could find some means of proving that the wooden 
objects in my fig. 241 are implements of an old Eskimo type, and ex- 
Fig. 1. Wooden doll with movable hip-joints, from Kialineq, East Greenland. 
Johan Petersen priv. collection. 1/2. 
plain their use, he would be doing something more useful than when 
counting the holes in them. We find, by the way, mention of a wooden 
almanac with nine holes in the old Journal of P. ЕбЕрЕ\. 
Shark’s Tooth Knives. 
p. 404. — It is quite correct that Olearius writes Ekulugsua, but 
the word as thus given in his original work itself contains a printer’s 
error; his Eku- must doubtless be meant for Eka- (he spells, in German 
fashion, all substantives with an initial capital); in the language of 
1 P. EGEDE, Journal, (1788) p. 79: “for I had made as many holes as there 
were days until the 9th January” (i. e. nine) “оп a small piece of board, 
with a peg to move each day”. 
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