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replied: "Now that I am so accustomed to this life, I cannot leave 

 it off". Hanserak told him that if he did not leave off, he was no 

 believer, for a believer must give up all wrong habits. To this 

 the heathen answered: "Well, by-and-by when 1 get to understand 

 you a little better, 1 hope I shall be able to give them up". 



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Art and orna- 

 ments. — The Ang- 

 magsaliks are a very 

 artistic people. As 

 formerly they were 

 not acquainted with 

 drawing, engraving, 

 and painting, their 

 artistic ideas are al- 

 ways represented in 

 carving. 



Their dolls and 

 models of animals 

 show a keen per- 

 ception, prominen- 

 ce being given to 

 essential characteri- 

 stics. Their dolls 

 have only the body 

 and the shape of 

 the head elaborated. 

 Those that are meant 

 to represent women 

 are made with a wide 

 top-knot. The face 

 is seldom elaborated, 

 the arms are left out 

 entirely, while the 

 legs are made dispro- 

 portionately heavy, in order that the dolls may be able to stand. There 

 are certain cases, however, in which the arms are carved, e.g. in fig. 44, 

 "A Bear-hunt", consisting of eight figures, viz., three men, one boy, 

 and three bears, one of the latter having a seal in its mouth. 



Human figures are often carved in conventional forms, and are 

 used as a kind of fringe to decorate needle-guards (fig. 42). When 

 intended for this purpose, the dolls as a rule have only the head 

 elaborated, while the body is made very long, a little notch at the 



Fig. 42. Ornamental art. Conventional human figures. 

 (From "Meddelelser om Grønland' vol. X, PI. XXVIII.) 



