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made prominent, because it brings us into immediate relations with the Collectors. Following this, classes of objects, with their functions, receive attention, especial care being taken to distinguish the relation of form, etc. to tribe, environment, and material.

[[double underlined]] Eskimo of Greenland. [[/double underlined]]

[[underlined]] Disco Island [[/underlined]] Plate of whale's vertebra and bone implements found on Disco Island by the Greely Relief Expedition  5 pcs.

[[underlined]] Holsteinberg [[/underlined]] A Kyak with accoutrements complete, consisting of the typical Greenland skin Kyak, line-rack, harpoon, harpoon-line, and throwing stick; (The latter has two perforations to fit in ivory hooks in the shafts of the harpoon.) seal-skin float, double paddle strengthened with plates of ivory, short lance, halibut lance, fair weather jacket, which is simply a broad cincture of dressed seal skin, fastened around the hole at the top of the Kyak and under the arm-pits of the navigator to keep the spray from entering the boat; waterproof jacket of sealskin