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has issued; I will call this last mentioned oldest Arctic Eskimo culture 
the Palæeskimo culture, and the older Arctic Eskimo people Palæ- 
eskimo. A further explanation of this name as being analogous with 
Palæasiatic and the like is hardly necessary. 
Nextly I will subject such a conspicuous object of culture as the 
house to an ethnographic investigation, whereby, amongst other things, 
there will be occasion to try and decide firstly which forms are originally 
Palæeskimo, brought along from the home of adaptation in the Archi- 
pelago, and secondly which have first arisen in the domain of influence 
— the area of acculturation — at Bering Strait. I will call all these 
latter forms, not only of the house but also of other cultural objects, 
received here or developed by incitation from foreign influence Neo- 
eskimo, and the whole of the younger Eskimo layer which carries 
this hybrid culture Neoeskimo. 
The transition from Palæeskimo culture to Neoeskimo culture has 
taken place in any particular spot at the moment when the tide of cul- 
ture coming from the regions around Bering Strait in some way or other 
reached the place in question, having fructified and enriched the present 
Palæeskimo culture. The Subarctic culture, both towards west and east, 
entirely belongs to the Neoeskimo layer. 
