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given by Astrup 1 of the Maupok stool of the Eskimos. Those 

 I have seen in 1909 quite agree with this, except that the legs 

 now consist of whole pieces of wood or sticks. 



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Fig. 3. 



Strangers arrive at the winter settlement (drawing by the Eskimo Samik). Above, a snow- 

 house and below this a winter-house, which is only partially drawn. The smoke-hole is 

 seen on both houses. In front of the snow-house a woman is sitting with a child in the 

 "amaut"; in front of the winter-house there are also two persons, whilst a tliird is sitting 

 on a sledge ; the upright back at the hind-end of tliis is supposed to have a hunting-line 

 wound round it. The dogs of the settlement are fastened together in a clump to a stone, 

 but are trying to make towards the people in front of the houses , as they imagine they 

 are about to be fed; but it does not occur to them to make towards the new-comers; 

 Greenland dogs do not watch over the house, but only the sledge when they are harnessed 

 to it. The long, horizontal line in the picture represents the boundary between the land 

 and the sea-ice The strangers have come half over this line and stopped. One dog does 

 a necessity on the ice; some others seek to settle their personal disputes and cannot be 

 distinguished from one another. The Eskimo man is standing behind the back of the sledge 

 with the whip in his hand, whilst the woman is sitting on the sledge and points towards 



the fighting dogs. 



Some time after the sun no longer rises above the hori- 

 zon , it is still light enough to be able to hunt on the ice, 

 but it gradually becomes darker and this puts an end to the 



1. c, p. 84. 



