Ethnographic Description of the Esliimo Settlements 



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II. Nature of the discoveries. 



Before beginning the description of the settlements, I may make 

 a few remarks on the more characteristic stone remains I have found. 



Winter-houses. These were of the ordinary Eskimo type and 

 intended for one — at most two — families (PI. II). At no place 

 did we find houses built for several families, as is the case for ex- 

 ample at Angmagsalik and on the west coast of Greenland. ' 



As usual the situation of the houses was often on a slope reach- 

 ing down towards the sea, but this is far from being the case at 



Fig. 1. Winter-house 317. East sliore of Stormbugt. 

 Seen from the N. E. The house has been partially dug out. The passage runs obliquely 

 backwards to the right: the side wall seen in the picture bulges outwards near the front wall: 

 one of the roofing stones in the opposite wall is projecting; the two walls are of the same height. 



(Photo, by A. LrXDAGER). 



all times. The local conditions, presence of stones and rocks etc., 

 often determine the form of the interior of the house and always 

 influence this. 



The small supply of drift-wood (cf. Syttenkilometernæsset) has 



1 On tlie other hand, they seem related to those found bj' Dr. Hammar in Franz 

 Josephs Fjord, by Captain Rydi:r in Scoresby Sound and Ьл' Captain Amdrup 

 south of the latter. Cf. Scoresby 1: pp. 208 — 10; Pansch: p. 54; Koldeavey: I, 

 pp. 590— 94, 594 illustr.; Ryder: pp. 296-301, 297 illustr. and Nathorst: pp.263, 

 342-43, 343 illustr. 



