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sisting of two small, chubby dolls, bound together with a short 

 double skin-strap, have probably been used as amulets. 



The absence of arms and feet on these dolls has already been 

 mentioned (p. 115) ^). On the other hand the sex of the women dolls 

 is very distinctly marked, partly by means of the hair-top partly by 

 emphasizing the breasts and sexual organs (figs. 366 b — e, g — о). On 

 the two dolls seen in fig. 369 — 370, found by Amdrup at the "dead 



house" together with 12 other 

 similar dolls, not only the 

 hair-top of the woman but 

 also the cropped hair of the 

 man is distinctly marked. 

 The eyes and mouth in the 

 face of the woman doll are 

 here marked by three almost 

 uniform hollows , roughly 

 carved and of unusual char- 

 acter; the navel is marked 

 by a small hole on the 

 woman not on the man. — 

 Two of the dolls brought 

 home by Graah from the 

 southern part of the coast 

 have in the main the same 

 features but the shape of the 

 body is less carefully carried 

 out, while on the other hand 

 the different parts of the face 

 are more distinctly marked^). 

 Several of the wooden 

 dolls in fig. 366 are not un- 

 like those inserted in the men's amulet-straps across breast and back 

 and when lying loosely in the collections it is difficult in each single 

 case to determine whether a doll has been used in this way or as a 

 mere toy for children. The dressed dolls were used solely for the latter 

 purpose. I saw myself how richly the small girls Avere provided with 

 dolls and how they amused themselves by playing with them. Also 

 some of the dolls carved in the sitting position were used as toys for 

 children, being placed on the thwarts in their models of boats. 



^) The same features occur in the dolls from Alaska. Nelson (1899) pp. 343 — 344, 

 PI. XCIII. Also the dolls from the west coast of Hudson Bay greatly resemhle 

 those of the East Greenlanders; see Boas (1901 — 1907) figs. 166 and 252. 



•') Graah (1832), PI. VIII, fig. ;5, cf. p. 101. 



Fig. 367. Image of a man carved in wood. 

 (Thalbitzer coll.). Ca. ^/g. 



