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Nos. 21— 26 Stone objects (Skærgaards Peninsula, Dunholm, Sabine Island). 



— 27— 64 Finds from Skærgaards Peninsula (68° 07 N. lat.). 



— 65— 98 Finds from Dunholm (69° 54' N. lat.) and Cape Tobin (70° 24' 



N, lat.). 



— 99— 119 Finds from Cape Borlase Warren (74° 18' N. lat.) and Sabine 



Island (74° 45' N. lat.). 



— 120—194 Finds from uncertain place north of Ammassalik. 



These objects showed, according to my description of them, so 

 many points of resemblance with the special types of the Ammasalik 

 culture that I could bring forward evidence of a partial continuity 

 between the northern and southern culture of the east coast of 

 Greenland. Most of them belonged to such forms of implements as 

 are known both from the west coast and east coast of Greenland. 

 Only very few objects in these northern finds belonged to types 

 hitherto unknown from Greenland (nos. 55-56, 72, 73—75, 99, 106) 

 or to types of a peculiar form (nos. 1 — 10, 65—66, 85, 86). 



The second part of the Amdrup collection obtains the numbers 

 195 — 717 in my description. Most of these objects are from the 

 "dead house" at Nualik, the remainder from various localities (house 

 ruins) nearer the centre of the southen district, namely: 



Nos. 195-661 Finds from Nualik (67° 15' N. lat, 33° 13' W, long.). 



- 662 - — Nordfjord (66° 19 N. lat., 35° 23' W. long.). 



- 663-693 — - Sarkarmiut (66°18'N.lat., 35°17'W.long.). 



- 694-701 - - Depot Isl. (66° 07 N. lat, 35° 32' W. long.). 



- 702-717 - — Tasiusak (65° 37 N. lat, 37° 33' W. long.). 



Amdrup's collection from the "dead house" (Nualik) ^) was 

 brought home to Copenhagen 20 years later than Holm's collection, 

 but the objects are at least just as old, as they all belong to the 

 time before the arrival of the Europeans. The objects found were 

 first brought by boat down to Ammassalik, where several of them 

 were recognised as belonging to a man, who with some other 

 families had journeyed northwards two years previous to Holm's 

 arrival, without anything being heard of the whole party later. The 

 circumstances attending the discovery indicated, that the natives 

 (over 30) had been overcome by a catastrophe, hunger or more 

 probably poisoning from rotten meat. They had not gone much 

 more than 80 miles from their tribal relatives, which agrees with 

 the fact, that the ruin found was of recent date in its appearance. 

 Although the collection found in the ruin originated from the time 

 before the arrival of Europeans, the contents showed distinct signs 

 of an indirect connection with European culture, e. g. in two saws, 

 wrenches and other iron objects, some fragments of pottery and 



1) Amdrup (1902) pp. 93— 94, 105 and 252—253. (1909) pp. 303— 311. 



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