Ethnological Sketch of the Angmagsallk Eskimo. 



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On comparing the two water-tubs fig. 47, it will be seen that 

 the ornaments in no. 1 are two seals over one another, while 

 the corresponding ones in no. 2 are two continuous ovals. Non- 

 continuous ovals are seen above the eye-shade no. 4 and between the 

 other ornaments on the eye- shade no. 3. If we compare the 

 two brims (fig. 46), 

 it will be seen that 

 just as seals form a 

 border round the 

 brim no. 1, an orna- 

 ment of continuous 

 ovals is formed round 

 the border of the 

 brim no. 2. On the 

 brim no. 1 we see in 

 many places pairs of 

 seals with their snouts 

 touching, and there- 

 by forming an orna- 

 ment like the two 

 ovals on the water- 

 tub fig. 47 no. 2, and 

 like the ovals of un- 

 equal size on the eye- 

 shade fig. 46 no. 3. 

 On the eye -shade 

 fig. 47 no. 4 the or- 

 nament is compos- 

 ed of three ovals, 

 and in other orna- 

 ments of even more. 

 How universal this 

 oval ornament is can 

 be seen on the eye- 

 shade fig. 47 no. 5, 

 where the space between the pieces of bone fastened onto it 

 forms ovals; it may be, however, that this is merely a coin- 

 cidence. 



Among relief ornaments there occur occasionally effigies of cer- 

 tain mythical figures (figs. 48 and 49). On the throwing -stick 

 fig. 48 several of these figures are seen; these occur not merely 

 in the bottom row, but also higher up on the wood. The natives 

 told us that they were meant to represent tornarsuks (p. 83), 



Fig. 46. Ornaments on brims, eye-sliades, and a vessel (from 

 Plate XXXVI in "Meddelelser om Grønland" X). 



