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corner, spreading out so as to stand on a base larger than the 

 top of the stool. They stand on this and thereby escape 

 getting cold feet". 



In Hans Egede's "Det gamle Grønlands nye Perlustration" 

 (1741), we Ond (pag. 35) an illustration of a Greenlander sitting 

 with hunting weapons on a chair which is only provided with 

 one leg, fairly long and pointed at the bottom; his feet rest 

 on a low stool of the usual sealing-stool form with quite short 

 pointed legs. This picture agrees with David Cranz's descrip- 

 tion ^) of hunting on the ice in Disco Bay: "A Greenlander 

 sits down by the seal's air-hole on a one-legged stool, and, in 

 order not to catch cold, rests his feet on a three-legged foot- 

 stool". This differentiation of the original single stool into a 

 chair plus a stool, seems to be peculiar to West Greenland. 

 The long-legged stool used at Ammassalik, however, is equally 

 well adapted for sitting on as for standing on. 



As compared with these types, we find in the northernmost 

 part of East Greenland a very low-legged stool, adapted for standing 

 on, the features of which, taken in conjunction, bespeak a marked 

 type of development from this part of the Eskimo world. 



Inv. Amd. 67 (Fig. 40 a) and 68 (Fig. 40 b) (Dunholm), 

 give evidence of another aspect of hunting-life in the winter- 

 time. They are two pieces of sledge keels made of bone, of 

 about the same size: 30cm by 5 cm in surface measure. 



The nail-holes are all of a pattern, from 5 to 6 mm in 

 diameter, and pierced to the same length. The width of the path 

 of the holes is the same at both mouths, being only in the 

 case of a very few holes slightly larger on the inner side 

 (upper side) of the shoe than on the outer (under) sur- 

 face; the holes seem thus to have been perforated from the 

 inner side. They are disposed fairly regularly in such a man- 

 ner that in no part of the keel are there two holes in the 



M Cranz 206. Cf. Mason III, 239 and 210, fig. 8. A foot-stool of this kind 

 from West Greenland is in the National Museum at Copenhagen. 



