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and over again when it became known, that I wanted to obtain 

 some. Their young owners came with them and they were always 



Fig. 369. Wooden doll representing Fig. 370. Wooden doll representing 

 a Avoman. Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). a man. Nualik. (Amdrup coll.). 



ready to tell me which persons 

 the dolls represented and who 

 had made them. The girls get 

 them as presents or by purchase 

 as children; and the grown-up 

 people teach them the names. 

 The girls keep them till they are 

 grown-up or even still longer. 

 When playing they build houses 

 for their dolls of the phalangeal 

 bones of seals, placed on the 

 ground in the shape of a large 

 square cut across by a row of 

 the same kind of bones, which 

 is meant to represent the plat- 

 form. Sometimes the children 

 make sledges and dog-teams in 

 the same way (but never or rarely 

 tents). They also play with the 

 dolls by letting them dance 



drum-dances and sing which consists in twisting the body of the 



dolls into different positions (dance). 



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Fig. 371. Bust of a man carved in wood. 

 Nualik. ('Amdrup coll.). 



