Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



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Fig. 368a is a fairly large doll evidently representing a woman 

 in the sitting position without hair top, arms and nose but with 

 nostrils and inlaid eyes in the orbits; the mouth is distended like 

 the mouth of a person playing uaajeertoq and dark with blood. The 

 doll probably represents 

 some supernatural being or 

 other and must be con- 

 sidered as male. 



A strange feature is seen 

 in the jointed puppet given 

 in fig. 368 b and named so 

 just on account of its pliable 

 joints. Is this doll possibly 

 a variety of East Greenland 

 origin ? Among the Eskimo 

 living outside Greenland 

 this kind of doll has not 

 been found so far as I know. 



Fig. 368 с shows an arm- 

 less man in the sitting posi- 

 tion, and d a woman in the 

 sitting position whose only 

 arm is unnaturally strongly 

 curved and the hand pressed 

 against the lower part of 

 the stomach; on the back 

 is a large hump evidently 

 caused by a knot in the 

 wood. She wears short 

 house-breeches (natit) which 

 are distinctly carved. 



Fig. 367 is a large 

 wooden doll found by me 

 in the refuse-heap outside 

 a house (near Taseesaq) 

 Many similar 

 been found and are also 

 represented in the Holm collection. We know very little of the 

 importance of these dolls; it would be of interest to know whether 

 they have been dressed and for what purpose they have been used. 



The usual dressed dolls {ineel^ät, fig. 366) which the young 

 daughters of the Ammassalikers always have as toys in two or more 

 couples, were offered to me in exchange for some other things over 



a 



J 1Л 1 Fig- 368. Wooden dolls representing three men and 



a woman (Greenland Administration coll.). Ca. Ч2. 



