416 Thomas Thomsen. 



99— '-ÎOO. "Sundry objects (plaited sinew threads etc.)". The sinew 

 thread is now marked No. L. 4947. The "etc." presumably 

 refers — although only one number is allotted — to various 

 small objects not noted in the list. 



In addition, the list delivered also mentioned "One dust 

 cleaner" that is to say, an umiak cleaner, or as Mr. Thal- 

 bitzer prefers to call it, a boathook, this being the very 

 one shown in Fig. 83a p. 380 of Mr. Thalbitzer's work 

 (L. 4940). Further, two dolls are also mentioned, repre- 

 senting men on ski,' (L. 4900 — 01); these are not included 

 in the published list. The Museum has also received 1 drum 

 (L. 4857), 5 undressed figures (L. 4878—82) including one 

 jointed doll {vide p. 403) and four bone beads (L. 4949 — 50) 

 which articles are not mentioned either in the list delivered 

 to the Museum or in that now published. Finally, to com- 

 plete the references made in the work to illustrations there 

 given of objects in the collection, the following numbers, with 

 those of the figures corresponding should be added: 



12 (Fig. 152c), 13 (Fig. 186a), 24 (Fig. 253e), 25—35 (Fig. 

 253i), 36—38 (Fig. 285f and g), 43—44 (Figs. 321f and 322b), 

 46 (Fig. 324b), 52—53 (Fig. 180b) and 71—78 (Fig. 378a). 



Among objects shown in the illustrations but not mentioned 

 in the published list, we have also: One Umiak cleaner (Fig. 

 83 a) beads (Figs. 343 a and b) and 1 drum (Fig. 360 a). 



Mr. Thalbitzer evidently attaches considerable importance to his 

 collection, since he has seen fit to include a catalogue of the same in his 

 work, at the expense of Holm's and Johan Petersen's, which are of 

 far greater value; it would therefore be reasonable to expect that the 

 catalogue given should be correct. The collection was not delivered to 

 the Museum until three years after his return from Greenland; and 

 one might suppose that he would thus have had sufficient time to 

 make himself fairly well acquainted with the material which he had 

 brought over. Nevertheless, his illustrations show no less than 15 objects 

 from this, his own collection, here attributed to others. Had he wished 

 to refresh his memory, or to fill up possible lacunae in his notes, he could 

 at any time have inspected the whole of the material at the Museum. 

 The most correct method of proceeding would have been to draw up a 

 list from the records of the Museum, or at any rate, to make sure that 

 the list to be published agreed, either with the contents of the collection 

 as preserved in the Museum, or with the list which accompanied it on 

 delivery. The third list which now appears in his work serves no good 

 purpose; rather, indeed, the reverse. 



