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DET ANTIKVARISKE ARKIV, Oslo: for drawing of Knorr from Nor-
wegian Church wall (Plate 10). NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CANADA:
for the artifacts of the Thule and Dorset Cultures (Plates 4 and 5).
NATIONAL MUSEUM, Copenhagen: for the Crozier and wooden
plates (Plate 2), Crucifix and Kingigtersuaq Stone (Plate 3); Bone
combs (Plate 5); the collections of artifacts (Plates 6, 7, 8, 9); and
the painting of Eskimos from Godthaab (Plate 16). OLDSASAMLING.
UNIVERSITY, Oslo: for the Gokstad and Oseberg ships (Plate 11).
PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA: for the Maps of the New World
(2-5, 7, and 8) and for the photographs of Henry Hudson, Sir
Thomas Button, Sir Martin Frobisher, and Thomas James (Plates
12-15). TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY: for assistance in obtaining details
from the Visscherius map (1) and the map of the Arctic Regions
by Willem Barents (6) and "Falconers and their Charges" from
The Art of Falconry (Plate 1)

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