. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Items in "Greenland: Arctic Denmark" exhibit. Top: Runic stone (shown approximately life-size) found in 1824 at Kingigtorssuak, just north of Upernavik. It reads: "Eriing Sigvatsson, Bjarne Thordarsson, and Eindride Oddsson erected Saturday before Rogation Day these cairns and runes ; Date is interpreted as April 25: type of runic letters places the year in the 14th century. Below: Typically armless carved wooden doll amulets, 2Vz to 5 inches high, of the Thule culture, from Nualik, north of Angmagssalik. Right: Early 20th century
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Items in "Greenland: Arctic Denmark" exhibit. Top: Runic stone (shown approximately life-size) found in 1824 at Kingigtorssuak, just north of Upernavik. It reads: "Eriing Sigvatsson, Bjarne Thordarsson, and Eindride Oddsson erected Saturday before Rogation Day these cairns and runes ; Date is interpreted as April 25: type of runic letters places the year in the 14th century. Below: Typically armless carved wooden doll amulets, 2Vz to 5 inches high, of the Thule culture, from Nualik, north of Angmagssalik. Right: Early 20th century water bucket, scoop, throwing stick for harpoon, and eyeshield, decorated with representations of the seal carved from Columbian Museum as a nucleus to found this institution, now Field Museum of Natural History. The material collected by Peary is thus one of the oldest collections in the Department of Anthropology, and although not on exhibition at the present time, is part of the Department's large reserve collections utilized by scholars for research purposes. Virtually every explorer from Ross to Peary who had contact with the Polar Eskimo noted the small amount of wood and metal utilized by the people in the manufacture of their tools, utensils, and weapons. Such exotic materials as were available to the Eskimos have generally been attributed to contact with whaling ships, the various explorers themselves, and occasional wrecked ships or driftwood fragments. However, if Polar Eskimo material culture was relatively unaffected by outside influences until Peary's first expedition, we would expect his collection to be notably lacking in items utilizing iron and wood in their construction. This is definitely not the case. These materials were utilized extensively by the Eskimos who made the tools, weapons, and other objects collected by Peary in 1891 and 1892. Trade materials such as wood and iron may have been introduced by migrating Canadian Eskimos in the mid-19th cen
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