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Like the children the dolls are often named after deceased persons, 

 who have been known by the inhabitants and whose souls they 

 want to honour or help by keeping alive the names. In consider- 

 ation of the Ammassalikers' dread, which always results in a kind of 

 taboo, of mentioning the names of the deceased and their belief that 

 soul and name are in close connection, we involuntarily get the im- 

 pression, that it was with some secret thought of religious purpose 

 that these dolls were given to the girls to dress, to play with, and 

 look after. 



Kaakaa, Keerseraq's daugliter aged ca. 15 j^ears, brouglit me two dolls 

 which she herself had played with as a child. The dolls represented a 

 married couple who had lived near Ciorarteet. The man was Ningaanütaai; 

 his wife Taqarqujuk and she carried in her amaut a girl child called 

 Tongartingarneejuk which is now full-grown and lives near Ciorarteet, whereas 

 the parents have died. The motlier was the cousin of Kaakaa's mother. 



Qianak, Akernilik's daughter (15 years), came to sell me four dolls which 

 she had played with as a child, besides several other dolls. Those I obtained 

 represent two married couples, the women with children in their amauts; 

 two of them had been made by Sootseeaa, one by Tusarpoa and another 

 (a female doll) Ъу Maratte's sister-in-law. One of the dolls named Kipisimaleq 

 was married to Pikwarqortooq who had in her amaut a son bearing the 

 same name as the man; the other couple were Awakataatser married to 

 Uppataaitseq, who carried the son Tättaqujuk in her amaut. 



Qaqortaiaqaaq first brought me a couple of dolls which were said to 

 have come from Umeewik and represented a childless couple, namely, the 

 woman Misaanak and her husband Eemaasuttuttoar (i. e. the names Misana 

 and Imerasugsuk known from the tales). Another time she brought me a 

 couple of dolls which represented a married couple she had seen as a child 

 when she lived near Umeewik. The man (the doll) was called Qaliättak and 

 on his back he wore as amulet a chip of wood which a woman had worn 

 in her hair-top. The wife was Pikküätsannaait. 



Aatsuko brought me two dolls given to him by his mother's sister 

 Tookaseq, whose elder brother Milätteq had made them for her after the 

 death of Angakasiät; his wife Miitarnaa carried Kammikimmak in her amaut. 



Meererng brought me two dolls found in the south at an abandoned 

 settlement near Amitsiartit; it was so long since it had been inhabited that 

 Meererng's mother was not even born by that time. Nevertheless I obtained 

 the names of the dolls, the man was called Tuaqamaang, the woman Quttu- 

 laait, the child Tsoratina. 



TOYS. 



Animals carved in wood and ivory (pp. 63, 116; figs. 43 — 44, 

 372—374, 384—388). — Fig. 372 a shows a wooden carving of an 

 elongated, low-legged animal, probably the same seen as ivory relief 

 on the small wooden board in fig. 347. The animal has no great 



