346 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
tle, and refers to a common cosmologic myth concerning the recovery 
of land after the deluge. 
G. Holm (a) gives the following account, translated and condensed, 
descriptive of Fig. 455, a wooden map made by the natives of the east 
coast of Greenland : 
In reference to map making I will only remark that many are inclined to enlarge 
the scale as they approach the better known places, which in fact is quite natural, 
as they would not otherwise find room for all details. As a natural result, map draw- 
ing in the form of ground plat is something quite new to them. Their mode of 
representing their land is by carving it on wood. This has the advantage that not 
only the contour of the land, but also its appearance and rock forms, can in a certain 
degree be represented. 
The block of wood brought back represents the tract between Kangerdluarsikajik, 
east of Sermiligak, and Sieralik, north of Kangerdlugsuatsiak. The mainland con- 
tinues from one side of the wooden block to the other, while the islands are located 
on the accompanying block without regard to the distance between them in refer- 
ence to the mainland. All places where there are old ruins of houses, and therefore 
good storage places, are marked on the wood map, which also shows the points 
where a kayak can be carried over the ground between two fiords when the sea ice 
blocks the headland outside. This kind of models serves to represent the route the 
person in question has followed, inasmuch as during his recital he moves the stick, 
so that the islands are shown in their relative positions. The other wooden map, 
which was prepared by request, represents the peninsula between Sermiligak and 
Kangerdluarsikajik. 
A and B represent the tract between Kangerdluarsikajik (immediately east of 
Sermiligak) and Sieralik (slightly north of Kangerdlugsuatsiak). B represents the 
coast of the mainland, and is continuous from one side of the block to the other, 
while the outlying islands are represented by the wooden block of A, on which the 
connecting pieces between the various islands must be imagined as being left out. 
While the narrator explains the map he moves the stick to and fro, so as to get the 
islands into the right position in reference to the mainland. 
Kunit explained the map tome. The names of the islands on A are: a, Sardler- 
miut, on the west side of which is the site of an old settlement; b, Nepinerkit (from 
napavok), having the shape of a pyramid; c, Ananak, having the site of an old set- 
tlement on the southwest point. (Norr.—Others give the name Ananak to the cape 
on the mainland directly opposite, calling the island Kajartalik.) d, Aputitek; e, 
Itivdlersuak; f, Kujutilik; g, Sikivitik. 
For BI obtained the following names, beginning at the north, as in the case of 
the islands: h, Itivdlek, where there are remains of a house; i, Sierak, a small fiord, 
in which salmon are found; &, Sarkarmiut, where there are remains of a house; 1, 
Kangerdlugsuatsiak, a fiord of such length that a kayak can not even in a whole 
day row from the mouth to the head of the fiord and back again; m, Erserisek, a 
little fiord; n, Nutugat, a little fiord with a creek at the bottom; o, Merkeriak, 
kayak portage from Nutugkat to Erserisek along the bank of the creek, when the 
heavy ice blocks the headland between the two fiords; p, Ikerasakitek, a bay in 
which the land ice goes straight out to the sea; q, Kangerajikajik, a cape; r, Kayd- 
lunak, a bay into which runs a creek; s, Apusinek, a long stretch where the land 
ice passes out into the sea; ¢, Tatorisik; w, Iliartalik, a fiord with a smaller creek; 
v, Nuerniakat; x, Kugpat; y, Igdluarsik; z, Sangmilek, a little fiord with a creek; ~ 
aa, Nutugkat; bb, Amagat; cc, Kangerdluarsikajik, a smaller fiord; dd, Kernertu- 
arsik. 
C represents the peninsula between the fiords Sermiligak and Kangerdluarsikajik. 
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