Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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'here' To Mr. Adlerger O. Brestaa and manage to un- derstand each other a little. He asks us to his home which is practically a large innuit house. The inside room is furnished in the european style but rather poorly. The library of probably 100 to 200 books is the most conspicuous object in the room. This gentleman is of jewish origin and came to Greenland as a boy. Most of his time has been spent in south Westermarck I think, with and a number of other north Greenland places. He will return to Danmark next year. His wife is an innuit with long skirts a rather comical- lons costume for her but evidently it is done to distinguish her from other innuits. Mr. Bresta shows hospitality at once by furnish- ing us some, two glasses, and his wife some after bring a coffee. He collects various natural history articles such as fossil plants, mammals and foetal specimens of seal and walrus. He next shows us skins of Greenland deer, fox, dog and arctic hare. I purchase of him a dog skin sleeping bag for 12 kr., then deer skins for 9 kr., then fox skins for 6 kr., 1 pair of Sunday Kamikks for 2 kr., 1 paper pound for 6 kr. and the foetal seal and etc for 8 kr. Mr. Rite also found one a lot and we pay 3 crowns and 8 Reemes. Mr. Bresta