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very small tent, the height of which outside was l"3 m, length 

 1-7 m and the breadth l"t m. Inside the space was so re- 

 stricted that she had just room to sit up on the ground in 

 front. Of platform or lamp there was no sign ; her bed was a 

 skin laid over a layer of grass. The diminutive tent opened 

 towards the large tents, so that Krule could keep an eye on 

 what was going on. 



The summer-tent of the Polar Eskimos, which I have had 

 the opportunity to see at Cape York and at Umanark, is in its 

 present form not nearly so interesting as the winter-house, as 

 the occurrence of wood in later years has had more effect on 

 the construction of the tent than on that of the winter-house. 

 The best hunters may have a tent-platform of wood, but we 

 still also see the older tent-platform , consisting of stones 

 placed together in a mosaic. 



As example of a Polar Eskimo tent 1 may describe the 

 largest and best tent at Umanark. It was occupied by two 

 families (Uvdioriark and Itsukusuk) and was fairly new. The 

 first time I visited this tent, a sunny day in July, only 

 the inner covering was on, while the outer covering lay in a 

 heap in front of the tent. The inner covering consisted partly 

 of skins of the bearded seal without hairs, partly of the same 

 kind of skins with the hairy side inwards. On the front part 

 of the tent and even a little along the sides, this inner covering 

 was quite clear and slightly transparent, so that the sunshine 

 filled the tent with a peculiar, clear, yet soft and pleasant light. 

 The tent was turned towards the north, so that even at mid- 

 night the sun shone into the quite pleasing room. This clear 



Fig. 17 shows Uvdloriark's summer tent, seen from the side. 

 In the back-ground to the right, the view extends in towards the 

 eastern end of Wolstenholm Sound with the inland-ice behind. 



Fig. 18 shows the old Krule and her little tent. The view in 

 the background extends right across Wolstenholm Sound to the 

 mountains on the north side of this fjord. 



