Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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toggle at the one end, reproduced here in fig. 344 a. Special dexterity 

 is displayed in the carving of two oblong beads from one piece of 

 ivory, provided with small eyes at the meeting ends, so that they 

 remain connected as links, as seen in fig. 344b (this being a magni- 

 fied reproduction of the lower part of the thin bead-chain belonging 

 to the necklace in fig. 325 c). A couple of similarly interlinked beads 

 were found by Amdrup at the Skærgaard Peninsula, where he also 

 found a set of three interlinked, clumsier beads. Similar discoveries 

 have been made previously further to the north ^). They are also 

 known from the northern part of the west coast and from Alaska 

 where they are linked together as pendants to the needle-cases or 

 bodkins of the women ^). Lastly, I may note the oblong, thicker 

 beads in the heavy chain of the necklace in fig. 325 c, which seems 

 to be roughly carved from hollow bones. One of 

 the middle beads is cylindrical in shape with a 

 dilatation in the middle. These shapes are also 

 known from the northern West Greenland (Pfaff's 

 coll.). Cf. Ryder's discovery of a bead-necklace from 

 Scoresby Sound ^). 



Beads consisting of whole teeth simply per- 

 forated cross-wise at the root have been superseded 

 at Ammassalik by newer forms but have probably 

 been used in earlier times. They were specially 

 used for the fringe-like ornaments along the lower 

 border of the outer frock and were suspended in a 

 belt round the waist. 



Strings of beads are still used as ornament not 

 only on the hair, forehead and necks of the women 

 but also on the lower edge of their frock, where 

 they form a fringe right round the body to conceal or to emphasize 

 the naked thighs (see fig. 28). 



The embroidered, motley-coloured skin-belts which the West 

 Greenland women sew nowadays have been influenced by the 

 Europeans, but the patterns may have retained some of their prim- 

 itiveness. The East Greenlanders have also begun to sew such belts 

 but only use patterns in black and white. (The belts from West 

 Greenland have in later years been introduced for sale in Copen- 

 hagen). 



Fig. 345. 



Loose pendants of 



ivor3% belonging to 



a needle-skin. 



(Holm coll.). Vs. 



1) Inv. Amdrup, nos. 59—60, see Thalbitzer (1909) figs. 31a and b and p. 420. 



•2) Ibid, and Pfaffs collection in Stockholm; Nelson (1899) pp. 56— 57; PI. XLVI, 



4, 10 and LIl, 16. 

 8) Ryder (1895) p. 328, fig. 39. A necklace(?) from West Greenland consisting of 



perforated teeth was seen by me in our National Museum in case no. 77. 



