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the ethnography of the An gm a g sal i к District. It will 

 then be possible to compare the representations of objects 

 from '4he dead house" with the representations of G. Holm's 

 excellent collection from Angmagsalik^). 



unfortunately the scanty space at our disposal in the boat 

 did not allow of our returning with the whole rich collection 

 which was to be found at Nualik. We had to confine our- 

 selves to taking with us all the objects carved in bone , most 

 of the smaller, and a few of the larger, objects carved in wood. 



XIV. Nordre- Aputitek is, according to G. Holm^), 

 the northernmost place which the Angmagsalik Eskimo 

 are known to have inhabited. Holm's informant was an 

 Eskimo of the name of Kunak, who had lived three years in 

 those parts as a boy. When I reached Angmagsalik in 

 1900 after having visited Nordre-Aputitek, Kunak was 

 still alive. He was then an old man, well over sixty, from 

 which I was able to conclude that the ruined house in 

 Nordre-Aputitek must be between fifty and sixty years 

 old. For on the whole island there was only one ruined 

 house, situated on a little fertile point on the SW, side of the 

 island. Its size precluded the possibility of its having been 

 inhabited after Kunak by Eskimo from the North. The 

 appearance of this settlement has thus served me as a guide 

 in estimating the age of other settlements. 



The ruined house itself lay on a site on which two other 

 houses had previously stood, so that the island must have 

 been successively occupied by different sets of inhabitants. A 

 luxuriant coat of verdure mantled the whole ruin. Outside it 

 there were a large number of bones of bears, seals, dogs and 

 narwhals, pieces of wood lay strewn about, and one of the frag- 

 ments of skin which we found had the hair still adhering to it. 



') Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. X. Tavler. New edition in preparation. 

 *) do. do. Vol. X. P. 222. 



