Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



613 



Fig. 340 shows two buckles from the "dead house" of the same 

 kind as the one in fig. 335 a. 



Fig. 341 shows various buttons belonging to the waterproof and 

 the combined outer frocks of the kaiaker. a is a kind of long button 

 which forms the end of the bead-studded braces which keep the 

 kaiak-skirt up ; or it may belong to the brace which from the top 

 of the left shoulder tightens the lower part of his waterproof kaiak- 

 frock in order that the water may run off; the end of the brace is 

 stuck into the hole in the top of this oblong button and fixed 

 in the countersinking for the knot on the one side, b and с are 

 among the 5 — 8 toggle-buttons fastened spirally at intervals like the 

 leaves on a stalk on the latter kind 

 of braces, intended to be drawn 

 through the buckle near the shoulder 

 and catch hold there. d^,d^ show 

 from two sides one of the end- 

 buttons on the cord which binds 

 the kaiak-skirt fast round the hoop 

 of the man-hole, e is the end-button 

 of the tightening cord at the back 

 of the kaiak-man's hood (mentioned 

 in connection with fig. 337). Accord- 

 ing to J. Petersen a buckle or ring 

 probably also belongs to this but- 

 ton i). 



Beads (nuisätcät, pp. 33—34), 

 consisting of dorsal vertebrae or 

 made of ivory, bone or stone in 

 roundish shapes with a perforation, occupy an important place 

 among the Ammassaliker's ornaments and trinkets. The women use 

 them on the hair; strung on long strings they are sewn on to the 

 toupee-band and hang down from there over the forehead; they 

 also have them round the neck and in the ears, and coupled two 

 and two in a string on the arms and breast of the anorak, in broad 

 thick rows round the waist, in wider rows on the short inner 

 breeches and round the pouches of the boots. The men often have 

 beads in the hair above the forehead, strung on some of their own 

 hair. There is naturally great variation among the different in- 

 dividuals in the use of beads, some never use them and the women 

 do not always wear their trinkets. There is also a variation accord- 



Jc. 



Fig. 342. Loose figures of ivory for 



relief ornament on wood. Nualik. 



(Amdrup coll.). 



') Johan Petersen designated the double-ring of bone seen in fig. 240 c as a buckle 

 of this kind. If he is right I have given an erroneous desciption to this illus- 

 tration. 



