A twelveyearold girl helping to set a fox trap. — A little KsUinui girl begins very early to help with 

 the traps, and with the sealskins, to tend the lamp, and help care for the baby. Her education 

 comes entirely through imitation of her mother, and all her work and play concerns the serious 

 matter of learning to be grown up like mother 



About the Crocker Land K.xpedition s headquarters was such wealth of boards and boxes for 

 making playhouses as these Eskimo children had never seen before. Wood is very scarce indeed in 

 the Smith Sound region and all that can be obtained must go into sledges and toopik poles. Often 

 narwhal horns have to be used for the toopiks. The older boys sometimes make snow playhouses, 

 little igloos, exactly as their fathers build the big igloos in which they live 



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