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These occur in pairs (the women are recognisable by their top- 

 knots) and are provided with arms, which is not the case with the 

 figures carved in wood, bone or ivory. In the needle-guard fig. 50 

 we see kaiaks and umiaks, hi the kaiak three salient points at 

 once catch our eye, viz., the man in the middle with the line-board 



and the float, the one 

 in front of him, and 

 the other behind him. 

 Geometrical fig- 

 ures consisting of 

 dots and dashes are 

 also used in tattooing 

 on women's breasts, 

 arms, and legs (figs. 

 28, 29). 



As we might na- 

 turally suppose, the 

 craftsmen execute 

 with their own hand 

 the ornaments on 

 the objects they have 

 made; moreover — 

 with the exception 

 of the conventional 

 seals and tornarsuks 

 — they always pro- 

 duce something ori- 

 ginal , yet without 

 departing to any 

 great extent from the 

 current type. Boys 

 and girls of the age 

 of from thirteen to 



Fig. .50. Embroidered ornaments on a bag, a needle-guard and a piece fifteen are able tO 

 of gut-skin (from Plate XXXVIIl in "Meddelelser om Grønland" X). 



perform this work. 

 The collection we have brought home with us contains both nicely 

 worked embroideries and carved objects made by children of that age. 

 If we compare the art of the Angmagsaliks with that of the West 

 Greenlanders, we shall see that the latter are far inferior to the 

 former. In the embroidery patterns on the West coast only straight- 

 lined figures are found, and variation in the patterns is mainly 

 brought about by means of different colours. On the East coast, 

 on the other hand, where the two natural colours of the skin are 



