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in social features, but everything has contributed to retard the 

 development of the "society", so that the tendency to work 

 and live together, which the Polar Eskimos are certainly also 

 in possession of, has never had the chance to develop. 



Practically the only sort of cooperation or subordinate 

 kind of sociological formation we can talk of in the case of 

 the Polar Eskimos, is the settlement; but as this is constantly 

 on the move, sometimes scattering, sometimes concentrating 



Fig. 39. 



Scene from a summer seulement (drawn by the Eskimo woman Tukuminguark). To the 

 left of the tent are seen two persons in conversation; at least one of them is a woman. 

 To the right a Dane is approaching with his hands in his pockets and behind him an 

 Eskimo. 5 dogs fastened to a stone are welcoming the new-comers, and a 6th dog is 

 trying to get up on a depot-pillar with meat on its top. To the left a sledge and on 

 this, Tukvmainguark said, her little son sits playing. 



more or less, this unit is not very constant either. The basis 

 for this periodic meeting together at a settlement is in part 

 relationship, in part the comradeship of the hunt. On the 

 other hand, there is no such thing as true alliances or group- 

 ing according to age , probably on account of the small num- 

 bers and scattered nature of the tribe ; nor are any ceremonies 

 or forms known on the attainment of maturity. 



The feeling of relationship is not small. It expresses it- 

 self, for example, in greater gentleness towards relatives, in 



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