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were found. The excavations of the more northerly localities, 

 where Amdrup himself was not present, were conducted by Dr. 

 Deichmann, the doctor and entomologist of the Expedition. 

 After the return of the Expedition, E. Ditlevsen, painter and 

 draughtsman, supplied a series of designs of the objects found. 

 A detailed report of the Expedition will be found in "Med- 

 delelser om Grønland" XXVII (Copenhagen 1902). 



On my return home in 1906 from Ammassalik, where I 

 had wintered for the purpose of collecting linguistic and folk- 

 loristic material, I was called upon by the Commissionen for 

 Ledelsen af de geologiske og geographiske undersøgelser i Grøn- 

 land to prepare not only the results of my own journey, but 

 also a description of the Amdrup collection, for publication in 

 "Meddelelser om Grønland". I hesitated at first to undertake 

 work of a kind which lay outside the special line of study 1 

 had hitherto pursued. On the other hand, I was moved by the 

 consideration that the publication of the Amdrup collection had 

 already been sufficiently delayed. This interesting collection 

 surely deserved a better fate than to be forgotten. Further 

 than this, in my capacity of linguist, I was sensible of the 

 advantage of obtaining a better insight into the forms assumed 

 by the material culture of the East Greenlanders; for changes 

 in the implements often run parallel to changes in the language, 

 and the Ammassalimmiut, in fact, have their own particular 

 designations for many of their Eskimo implements and utensils. 

 An exact knowledge of the objects and their modifications will 

 always come in useful in studying a people's linguistic desig- 

 nations of these objects. 



During my two journeys to the West and East coast of 

 Greenland, I had had an opportunity of acquiring a first-hand 

 knowledge of the implements and mode of life of the Green- 

 landers. When I was now shown the highly weathered objects 



