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have seen myself (belonging to the Holm collection) in the cases of 

 the East Greenland section of our National Museum and which have 

 been photographed there. I do not remember to have seen the rest 

 of his finds of stone objects'). But in a small box in the same col- 

 lection^) I discovered six small wrought stones which have not been 

 reproduced before (figs. 205 a— g and 206 a and b) and which I shall 

 describe in detail below. In the following chapter, further, I shall 

 also mention 2 women's knives (figs. 223 a and b) with stone-blades 

 attached to the haft. 



Amdrup found no small stone objects at Nualik, apart from a 

 whetstone of the usual type (fig. 220). The "dead house" was not 

 of old date and the inhabitants have had a fairly rich supply of 

 iron in their tools, so that they did not need to fall back upon the 

 primitive stone implements. The larger stone-utensils found in the 

 house, the lamp and the pots of soapstone were too heavy to be 

 taken in the boat-^). I may also note in this connection, that Kruuse, 

 who was a member of the Amdrup Expedition, states that on the 

 rocks near the settlement he found several minerals which had 

 evidently been collected by the natives, among others some quartz 

 druse crystals, a piece of jasper and another of agate lime-stone, 

 pumice etc.*). The interest the natives have taken in certain kinds 

 of stones may be due to various, probably also religious reasons'*). 

 — On Depot Island Amdrup found an interesting hammer-stone 

 (fig. 215). Further north he also found a few stone objects, namely, 

 2 blades of women's knives (ulos) and a fragment of a man's knife (?) 

 on the Skærgaard Peninsula, a fragment of an «Zo-blade(?) on Sabine 

 Island and the blade of a knife or drill and a toy-pot (or paint pot?) 

 on Dunholm'^). 



The few stone artifacts in Holm's collection were for a long 

 time the only evidence, that the Ammassalik district had also known 

 a period when stone tools were in use. But during his long stay 

 as Danish official in this district Johan Petersen in the course of 

 time received many chance contributions to the archæology of the 

 islands and fjords up there, and among them a number of small 



^) For inst. a hammer head (or chisel?) of stone figured by Holm (1888) PI. XVIII. h. 

 The same is true of a number of stones, said to be scrapers, in part only roughlj" 

 wrought or not wrought, which belonged — according to oral communication 

 kindly given me by Commodore Holm — to the Holm collection without being 

 mentioned in the inventor}' list. 



-'■) One of the boxes illustrated here, fig. 289 (a, b or d?). 



3) Amdrup (1909) p. 304. 



*) Kruuse (1912) p. 185. 



6) Thostrup (1911) p. 197. 



'■') These finds have been previously mentioned b}' me (1909) pp. 377 — 385; figs. 11 — 16. 



