Ethnographic Description of the Eskimo Settlements 



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The houses 132 and 133 lay side by side at a distance of about 

 1 meter. The passages led out obliquely from the abutting corners 

 of the front walls and met a little way out, continuing afterwards 

 as one passage. These 2 houses thus form a kind of transition to 

 the common house' (PI. П.). The houses were not measured. 



The various articles found in the winter-houses lay under the 

 roofing stones and on the platforms. More rarely some were found 

 on the floorplace inside the doorway. In the houses we found among 

 other things: in 131, a fine little slate-point and a small wooden 



Fig. 28. Winter-house 134. Rensloeret. 



Seen Irom the S.W. The women's l)oat rests i:{7 are seen on the margin of the picture. ))ehunl 



and to the left, i Photo. ))V the author . 



figure; in 132, a bow, foreshaft of a harpoon, a weapon point of 

 slate and a couple of wooden figures; in 133, a fine, small, woman's 

 knife, a comb of bone and an ice-scraper for kayak and in 134, 

 2 harpoon heads. As already mentioned, the winter-houses were far 

 from being sufficiently examined and the no small number of 

 articles we found with a hasty investigation seem to promise more; 

 but 1 do not believe that the natives can have died out in the winter- 

 houses, as no lamps were found anywhere, though we immediately 

 searched the place on the side-platform where they had stood. 



' Cf. Knud Rasmussen 1: p. 242 and Км;о Rasmussen 3: p. 216. 



