Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



557 



a 



mortised to them. This specimen in reality connects the settlement 

 discovered at the Skærgaard Peninsula with the Ammassalik culture 

 more closely than any other objects from the same place. As the 

 majority of the discoveries from this place betray an undoubted con- 

 nection with the common, old Greenland culture, the comparatively 

 ancient date of the stave-vessels at Ammassalik is rendered probable. 



Otherwise the pertaq-type is the usual form for the Eskimo 

 water-bucket, urine-vessel, drinking cups and for their plates and 

 trays used for carrying meat and blubber, frozen berries, soup for 

 the family, blood for the dogs etc. The pertaq-buckets are found 

 everywhere in Eskimo regions^). Northwards near the Skærgaard 

 Peninsula Amdrup found 

 a typical specimen of a 

 pertaq blubber-dish made 

 of a whalebone-strip round 

 an oval wooden bottom^). 



Besides this kind of 

 vessel the Eskimo every- 

 where use hollow wooden 

 blocks, round, elliptical or 

 rectangular in shape, as 

 meat and blubber trays and 

 as plates. The round and 

 flat shapes of these utensils 

 (fig. 285) observed among 

 the Ammassalikers are by 

 no means unknown outside 

 Greenland^). Near Cape 

 Tobin Amdrup found a 

 meat-tray of a similar rhom- 

 boid and deep shape as 

 known from central Eskimo regions and from Alaska*}. Also the 

 scoops, ladles and spoons of the Ammassalikers are of true Eskimo 



b cd 



Fig. 287. Snuff-horns. (Holm coll.). Vs. 



1) Murdoch (1892) pp. 86—88 (here urine-buckets are also mentioned from Alaska); 

 Nelson (1899) pp! 71—72; Boas (1901 — 1907) pp. 44—48, 73—75, 98—99; Kroeber 

 (1899) p. 288. 



•^j Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 408-412, figs. 26-28; cf. from West Greenland p. 525, 

 fig. 95 (and 43). 



3) The West Greenlanders have used quite similar forms (seen in PfafF's collec- 

 tion). From the west coast of Hudson Bay, Boas (1901) p. 99, fig. 143 a; from 

 South-west Alaska, Nelson (1899) p. 70 and PI. XXXI— XXXII. Murdoch (1892) 

 pp. 99-100. 



*) Thalbitzer (1909) pp. 462—463, fig. 51; (1911) p. 43. Boas (1901) p. 99. Lyon 

 (1824) p. 118. Murdoch (1892) p. 89, fig. 19. 



