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cliffs, several of which occur along the coast, are used both 

 on the sledge and kayak journeys, when the night has to be 



Fig. 1- 



A snow-house seen from the side (drawn by the Eskimo woman 

 Alakrasina). Note how the rows lie obliquelj', being arranged in 

 a spiral which ends at the top, where the smoke-hole is. On the 

 right of the house-passage stand two individuals, one of which is 

 a woman with a child in the "amaut". 



passed in the open or shelter sought for owing to bad weather. 

 A well-known cave, where some of the expeditions have sought 

 ^ shelter on their journeys by sledge or 



boat, lies just to the north of the 

 Petowik Glacier about halfway between 

 the settlements in Wolstenholm Sound 

 and at Cape York4 During the autumn 

 hunting out in Olriks Fjord, when the 

 Eskimos have come down with their 

 sledges over the inland ice, a shelter 

 is built of stones and outstretched skins 

 in which the women and children can 

 live, while the men are out for days 

 on the hunting grounds". Much sought 

 after also, whilst on journeys or hun- 

 ting, are the ruins of winter-houses. 

 This collection of winter and sum- 

 mer dwellings, hunting lodges and improvised shelters on 

 journeys, which the Eskimos know how to construct, already 

 shows to what a high degree and in what a practical manner 

 they adapt themselves to the prevailing conditions. 



^ Peary: iNorthward etc. Vol. II, p. 139. 



'^ Knud Rasmussen: Nye Mennesiier. København 1905, p. 90. 



Fig. 2. 

 Diagram of the interior of a 

 snow-house (drawn by the same 

 person). A blubber-lamp is re- 

 pre.sented as standing on each 

 of the side-platforms inside the 



house. 



