Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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knee [at Ammassalik on 

 the cheek] and are thus 

 used as they are, i. e. 

 unplaited. But for the 

 clothes that require 

 stronger sewing, e. g. 

 whale-fishing dress and 



boot-soles, plaited 

 threads may be used. 

 Plaited threads (pertläk) 

 may also be used in the 

 sewing of umiak, kaiak 

 and tent-covers, for the 

 large skin bags etc.; the 

 plaiting of the threads is 

 made with wonderful 

 dexterity and speed. 



For the plaited sinew 

 thread large sewing need- 

 les, for the unplaited 

 small needles are re- 

 quired. The fine em- 

 broidery, e. g. on boots, 

 shoes, skin-frocks, espec- 

 ially if adorned with the 

 beard of reindeer (old 

 males), requires just as 

 fine sewång needles as 

 our own finest embroid- 

 eries. The triangular 

 (in transverse section), 

 ground needles are most- 

 ly used by the Green- 

 landers, who are so part- 

 icular in their choice 

 that among 100 needles 

 of varying sizes they 

 would hardly find more 

 than a few which in 

 every respect suit their 

 wishes. But if they find 

 good needles and have 

 good thread they sew 

 very neatly and take 

 great care that the stitch- 

 es are small, short, uni- 

 form and with the same 

 distance between them 

 (Glahn). 



According to Cranz^) 

 the Greenlanders pre- 

 viously used fish-bone 

 and the thinnest bones 



\) Cranz 1. с p. 183. 



Fig. 295 



Man's dress. Sealskin frock and bear skin 

 trousers and shoes. (Holm coll.j. Mio. 



