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this and the other measurements were somewhat smaller. The 

 greatest length internally from the entrance to the back was 

 420 cm, whilst the greatest breadth just in front of the main 

 platform was 360 cm. The main platform itself, which in this 

 tent consisted of wooden beams laid transversely on the rows 



of stones at the sides, was 

 in the centre 195 cm from 

 front to back. The side- 

 platform, which consisted 

 partly of wood, partly of 

 stone, was 120 cm. broad 

 on Uvdloriark's side and pro- 

 jected 110 cm from the main 

 platform, whilst thai on ll- 

 sukusuk's side was only 

 70 cm and projected 90 cm; 

 but Itsukiisuk was not so 



clever a hunter as Uvdlori- 



p.^ ark, being also younger and 



Diagrammatic ground-plan of a tent for 2 fa- still withoUt children. In 

 milies (as the tent shown in fig. 17). The two 



skin-layers are indicated by a thicker and a frOnt Of the SldC-plattOrmS 



thinner line; the dotted part of the latter in „ , „e lU^ t,,.« .^«r. Un A .-, 



„,.,,,, , '^ ,. r. A fj each 01 the two men had a 



front indicates the clear portion. G and Л are 



the two front uprights, which support the hori- J^qj^ qj. small, locked Case Of 

 zontal top-pole. Between В and С the main plat- 

 form, here considered to be of wood. At E and the kind generally USCd in 

 /' the side-platforms with the lamps; these plat- 



forms are partly of wood, partly stone. D and 



Danish Greenland, in which 



D' are the tool-boxes The cross (XI indicates the ^^ ,^ ^^^-^ ^^^, caitrid- 

 spot, where the mother in photograph fag. 'ilS sits. •' "^ ' 



ges and smaller instruments. 

 The boards of the main platform were covered with a 

 layer of dry grass and above this skins of the reindeer. Just 

 as described for the arrangement of the winter-houses, here 

 also the women had their place outermost at the sides of the 

 tent, where they sat by the side-platform and the lamp standing 

 on it. Here sat Kagssàluk, whom the photograph given on 

 fig. 23 shows in home-dress, managing to look after her small 



