Implements and Artefacts of the North-east Greenlanders. 487 



along Independence Fjord to the East Coast. And we may with a 

 considerable degree of certainty mark down the region on the Ameri- 

 can side whence they originally came. 



Prof. FRANZ BOAS has, in his work "The Eskimo of Baffin Land 

 and Hudson Bay" collected a mass of material which for the first 

 time renders it possible to make closer comparison. Immediately 

 after the publication of, the Amdrup Collection records moreover, 

 he proceeded, in a review in the American weekly, "Science", 1 to 

 draw the conclusions to which these pointed. He writes, in this 

 connection : "It brings out conclusively the close relationship between 

 the culture of the northeast coast of Greenland and that of Ellesmere 

 Land, northern Baffin Land and the northwestern parts of Hudson 

 Bay. The similarities are so far-reaching that I do not hesitate to 

 express the opinion that the line of migration and cultural connec- 

 tion between northeast Greenland and the more southwesterly 

 regions must have followed the shores of Ellesmere Land, the north- 

 ern coast of Greenland, and then southward along the east coast". 

 Reference is made to a number of implements, especially needle- 

 cases, snow knives, the ornamentation on the comb from Dunholm 

 and the hunting stools from Cape Tobin. 2 



The extensive material from the northern regions brought back 

 by the Danmark Expedition entirely bears out the theory of the 

 famous American ethnographer. The country about Southampton 

 Island, especially, affords some very close parallels. In addition to 

 snow knives and needlecases, we here find ornamental plates of bone 

 with a dotted pattern, exactly corresponding to that on the bone 

 plates PL XI, 1, and PL XXV, 19 (p. 375); there are barbs for side 

 prongs of the salmon spear as in Fig. 17 (p. 398), two-handed scrapers 

 of bone like PL XXVI, 5 and those found by RYDER and AMDRUP 

 (p. 445), and a harpoon head of the same form as that in Fig. 8 

 should also probably be noted here. And in contrast to what is 

 generally the case among the Central Eskimos, arrowheads with 

 conical base have been found; one specimen corresponds entirely to 

 some from North-east Greenland ; 3 the wooden bow also resembles 

 the North-east Greenland type, though it is heavier; the manner of 

 joining the parts, when not made in one piece, is the same in 

 both places. 



With regard to snow knives and needlecases, we find in the 

 regions between Southampton Island and Greenland connecting links 



1 Issue of 15. Oct. 1909. (BOAS IV). 



2 In Danish, W. THALBITZER has since described the resemblances with the same 

 implements (THALBITZER IV). 



3 BOAS III, p. 37, Fig. 193 b; cf. RYDER I, p. 309, Fig. 9. 



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