536 W. Thalbitzer 



small soapstone bowl placed under the latter; ernaain overflowing 

 oil dripping from the lamp; oqiimmia 'morsel, mouthful,' piece of 

 blubber in the lamp; eeneq train-oil; iparqat wick (moss); neqqit 

 'tooth,' smoking snuff of the wick; nanereelua (sort of torch, candle?) 

 = taqqiseet wick trimmer. 



Fire-places in the open air are not used by the Ammassalikers, 

 nor (as on the west coast) are they placed in a side-space of the 

 passage way. It has probably at some period or other, and perhaps 

 for religious reasons, been prohibited at Ammassalik to make fire in 

 the open air. On the northern part of the east coast fire-places have 

 often been found ^). 



Drying-frames (innicät, eeoqalin, p. 39). — Two different forms 

 of these are known from Ammassalik. The larger is a rectangular 

 grating, about 50 by 100 cm,, consisting of two thick and flat boards 

 (ending with seal-tail ornaments) connected by a row of longer and 

 thinner bars (round in transverse section), the ends of which are 

 inserted into some holes in the inner edge of the boards (fig. 260a). 

 This frame is suspended in a horizontal position above the lamp- 

 place by means of four lines hanging down from the ceiling, the 

 thin bars of the grating being directed from the platform to the 

 window side. The hanging straps of the pot are either looped over 

 two of the bars or fastened on a loose cross-bar resting upon the 

 other bars, so that the pot may be pushed to and fro according to 

 the heat wanted for it. The pot can also be lifted or sunk for 

 the regulation of the cooking. To this end the hanging straps are 

 not attached directly on the drying frame but are looped into two 

 other straps which hang down from the frame, tied in their upper 

 ends to the cross-bar just mentioned. These straps are arranged 

 as movable loops which may be lengthened or shortened by means 

 of bone-buttons and hooks whereby the pot is sunk or lifted. All 

 wet clothes that have to be dried (including boots) are placed on 

 the large drying- frame. — The smaller kind of drying -frame or 

 "hook" (p. 248, initsat) is a more specialized implement of an elong- 

 ated oval shape (fig. 259), cut from a piece of wood like a small 



M Scoresby (1822) p. 187 at Cape Swainson (near С Lister 70^30 N. lat.) "two 

 cavities inclosed by stones, on the edge of a bank, that had been emplo^'ed as 

 fire-places" (cf. p. 253). Ryder also came across several fire-places in Scoresbj'^ 

 Sound 1895, pp. 291, 328 etc.). The Smith Sound Eskimo often made their 

 cooking places in the open air (K. Rasmussen, 1905. pp. 8 — 9, 230 etc.); Nares 

 found near Cape Sabine in Ellesmere Land "a blackened fire-place, made of 

 three stones placed against a rock with the hairs of a white bear sticking to 

 the grease-spots ■' iFeildcn in Nares, 1875, p. 1888). As to Baffin Land, Kumlien 

 (1879, p. 20) mentions that "in summer, especially when on hunting excursions, 

 they very often 'fry' meat by making a little fire-place of stones, laying a 

 flat piece of stone on the top." 



