Ethno<>raphical collections from East Greenland. 



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From the Smith 

 Sound Eskimo we liear 

 of women's breeclies 

 ("legless trunlvs") made 

 of thick fox or rabbit 

 fur, lined with soft bird- 

 skin '). They seem to be 

 made according to the 

 same principle as those 

 of the Ammassalik wom- 

 en, only that the latter 

 are made of seal -skin 

 with the hairy side turn- 

 ed outwards and orna- 

 mented with embroidery, 

 skin fringes and strings 

 of beads. 



Sewing, needle and 

 THREAD. — As a supple- 

 ment to what has been 

 said on p. 514 regarding 

 the sewing of the Eskimo 

 women with bone-need- 

 les and on pp. 506—507 

 and 518—519 regarding 

 their twisting of the sew- 

 ing thread, I may here 

 cite what has been writ- 

 ten by Cranz and his 



sharp commentator 

 Glahn. The accounts giv- 

 en by the older authors 

 of the original manufac- 

 tures of the Eskimo are 

 naturally of special 

 value, as the commercial 

 intercourse with Europe 

 in modern times has 

 caused great changes in 

 the culture of the natives. 

 The new wares have even 

 penetrated as far as Am- 

 massalik and certain old 

 implements and manu- 

 factures have changed 

 or been forgotten. It 

 must be noted that the 

 following remarks apply 



1) Kroeber (1899) p. 295. 

 Mylius -Erichsen and 

 Moltke (1906) pp. 364 

 —365; Steensby (1910) 

 figs. 22-23. 



Fig. 293. Women's inner breeches (natit). a and с front, 

 Ъ and rf back. (Holm coll.). ^k. 



