322 W. ÏHALBITZER 



than 150 years of colonisation and scientific investigation of the 

 west coast" ^). — The main part of this collection is now preserved 

 in the National Museum of Copenhagen; duplicates were presented 

 to the Christiania Museum. 



G. Amdrup's collection owes its origin to the Carlsberg Fund 

 Expedition to East Greenland in the years 1898— 1900 ^). It forms a 

 valuable supplement to Holm's collection. For the places where the 

 objects were found and their history, I may refer to Amdrup's own 

 description in "Meddelelser om Grønland" XXVIII (1909). From its 

 contents the collection falls into two main parts, one from the 

 regions north of the Ammassalik district, the other from various local- 

 ities within this district and belonging to the same culture. Of the 

 first part 1 have already given a detailed description in the volume 

 mentioned (1909). The second part will be discussed here along 

 with Holm's collection and will thereafter, as has already been done 

 with the objects of the first part, be handed over to the National 

 Museum of Copenhagen to be placed among its Greenland collections. 



In my description I have not followed Amdrup's arrangement 

 of the objects, but have thought it better to rearrange the numbers, 

 so that the part described first, the northern discoveries, obtained 

 the first numbers ^). My arrangement of the first part of the Amdrup 

 collection was as follows '^): 



Nos. 1 — 10 Harpoon heads (Cape Tobin and Skærgaards Peninsula). 

 — 11—20 Other weapon heads made of bone (Cape Tobin, Skærgaards 

 Peninsula and Dunholm). 



1) Schultz-Lorentzen in "Meddelelser om Grønland" XXVI (1904) p. 315. 



2) Amdrup who led this expedition has described it in "Meddelelser om Grøn- 

 land" XXVII (with French summary). 



3) In Amdrup's own inventory there are altogether 455 items from East Green- 

 land, but of these not a few items contain several objects (partly different in 

 type though belonging together according to use; for example, one item is a 

 group of small bone objects u'sed on the kaiak, another objects which belong 

 to the sledge and harness of the dogs), whilst on the other hand the list at 

 various places contains blind numbers, representing intentional gaps in the 

 series. Amdrup had so arranged his inventory, that possible discoveries later, if 

 the places were revisited, could be entered between the first items. Each new 

 place thus begins with an intentionally higher number than necessary. After 

 the objects from Nualik (Nos. 1 — 158) come those from Skærgaards Peninsula 

 with Nos. 201—227, Dunholm 250—268 and so on. 



In contrast to this numbering of the Amdrup collection, I shall refer to the 

 objects of J. Petersen's etc. collections with the numbers which the collectors 

 themselves have given the various items without any rearranging. These col- 

 lections have not been at my disposal to the same extent as the Amdrup 

 collection, during the time I have been working at the description. As for the 

 Holm collection, I have not even had the opportunity of seeing the inventories 

 of the museum. 

 *) Thalbitzer (1909) p. 330, cf. pp. 540— 542. 



