493 



tion of their wooden implements, as for instance, throwing- 

 sticks and eye-shades^). 



The discovery of these objects of the same type of orna- 

 mental art as at Ammassalik so far to the north on the East 

 coast of Greenland, is extremely interesting as a fresh attestation 

 to the continuity in the material and ideal culture of this coast. 

 At any rate it can be said that as regards this settlement, and 

 thus as regards one or more families who have lived so high up 

 in the north, we find a continuity with the Ammassalik Eskimo. 



b,c 



Ф 



Fig. 70. a, b, с Bone ornaments for attachment. — d, e, f. Ornamental 

 tooth and beads. Sabine Island, '/i. 



For ornaments for attachment of this kind are otherwise not 

 known in Greenland; not from the west coast, and certainly 

 not from any Eskimo district outside Greenland either'^). 



Inv. Amd. 110 (Fig. 70), from Sabine Island, is the tooth 

 of a mammiferous animal, pierced at the root, analogous to 

 those which belonged to the belt or necklace described under 

 the heading of inv. Amd. 57. 



Inv. Amd. Ill and 112 (Fig. 70 e, f), from Sabine Island, 

 are two round, somewhat flattened beads of white bone, nearly 



») G. Holm 150—153; PI. XXX to XXXV. 



*) There is no reference to this form of ornamental art in Hoffman's work 

 on the graphic art of the Eskimo. 



TTwm O- 



