Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



597 



Alaska and Greenland I have not found them mentioned in the 

 literature. 



Besides the helmet-like eye-shades the Ammassalikers, as already 

 mentioned, use some simpler ones resembling loose peaks which are 

 also well-known from Alaska (Nelson); they are probably only a 

 specialized form of the above-mentioned wooden visors, somewhat 

 shortened and provided with an attached loop to be hung round the 

 head instead of the wooden fillet of the Alaskan helmet enclosing 

 the back of the head (figs. 320—322). 



The last-named peaks have not the advantage possessed by 

 larger eye-shades, which according to the Ammassalikers can be 



used as drinking -cups when 

 out in the kaiak. When the 

 kaiaker out among the ice is 

 overcome by tliirst, he loosens 

 his helmet-like eye-shade and 



Fig. 322. Two loose peaks, a of skin with embroidery, Ъ of wood with 



ivory reliefs. (Holm coll.). ^1з. 



bales fresh-water from the nearest melting-water pool he can find 

 on an ice-floe. 



A feature probably peculiar to the Ammassalik helmets is the 

 two oblong ivory beads {qusoorutaai) suspended by a short strap 

 from the corners of the lower edge of the helmet and hanging down 

 over the prominent cheek-bones (the eye-goggles sometimes have the 

 same ornament); further a couple of beads [tutarmeewän) are often 

 suspended in front on the curve of the lower edge. — The ornaments 

 will be mentioned later (cf. also pp. 118 — 124). 



Snow-goggles {ittaak, pp. 31 — 32). — The snow-goggles of the 

 Ammassalikers are carved from an oblong piece of wood, and shaped 

 so that they form a concavo-convex surface fitting over the upper 

 part of the nose and going round to the ears. They all have a short 



