Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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to resemble the white men (a tragic sight) and all are undoubtedly 

 now short-haired at Ammassalik. 



Unknown in Greenland is the circular tonsure with quite a bare 

 patch on the crown of the head, mentioned as universal from Alaska 

 to Mackenzie River and traced eastwards to Iglulik (cf. Murdoch) ^) 

 or with a single tuft left, as mentioned from Labrador by Cartier 

 and Charlevoix^). 



I insert here one of the first descriptions we have of the appearance of 

 the Esldmo which were met in 1534 by -Jacques Cartier in the St. Lawrence 

 Gulf near the coast of New- 





foundland (on 47° N. lat.)2): 

 "Then he was gladly wel- 

 comed of the Sauages, sing- 

 ing, dancing and expressing 

 other signes of joy . . . They 

 went naked, sauing their priv- 

 ities which were couered with 

 a skinne, and certaine old 

 skinnes they cast upon them. 

 Some they saw, whose heads 

 were altogether shauen except 

 one bush of haire which they 

 suffer to grow upon the toppe 

 of the crowne, as long as a 

 horse-tayle, and tyed up with 

 leather-strings in a knot." 



Women's necklaces (mii- 

 serqat, p. 33) are made in similar 

 style to the men's hair- bands and 

 have the same pearl ornaments. The 

 band seen in fig. 325 a is an old-time 

 necklace made of beads, i. e. dorsal verte- 

 brae of Captins, partly uncoloured partly 

 coloured in blood; b is almost of the same 



kind except that the beads are of bone or glass; с is a fragment 

 consisting of several heterogenous parts among which larger kinds 

 of beads, at the end two interlinked ivory beads. A more modern 

 hair-band made of glass-beads is seen round the neck of the woman 

 in fig. 302. — According to Kroeber the women of the Smith Sound 

 Eskimo wear necklaces of skin to which several drops or pendents of 

 ivory are attached ^). 



Outside Greenland I can find no mention of the use of neck- 

 laces by women in the central regions north of Hudson Bay. On 

 the other hand, the women here wear fringes consisting of strings of 



') Murdoch (1892) pp. 140—141; Nelson (1899) p. 57. 



2) Jacques Cartier (1617) p. 931 ; Charlevoix (1744) p. 180, cf. citation in this book p. 573. 



») Kroeber (1899) p. 291, fig. 38. 



Fig. 326 Ö. 



Profile of 



man with 



hair-halters. 



(Petersen pt. 



