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tion before the arrival of the Europeans at Ammassalik and that 

 their manufacture already long before that time had acquired such 

 distinct and conventional forms. The ornamentation consisting of 

 ivory reliefs along the outer sides of the staves in some of the 

 smaller tubs already seems to indicate, that the manufacture of this 



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 Fig. 285. Dishes and plates made of wood. (Holm coll.). Ча. 



kind of vessel is of an old date in these regions of the east coast; 

 and a still better confirmation of this supposition is obtained from 

 Amdrup's discovery of a small urine tub (a child's urine pail) at 

 the Skærgaard Peninsula, previously described and illustrated by me\). 

 Here we find again both the staves (seven in all) and the bottom 



1) Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 407-408, figs. 25 and 27 (by a misprint the latter illustra- 

 tion has been turned upside down in the book, but not in the separate copies). 



