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THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT 



[ETH. ANN. 18 



Eskimo had followed a deliberate plan. The large number of boats, 

 and the necessity for having clear space to enable each crew to launch 

 without interfering with its neighbors, must have brought about this 

 plan, which could not have been improved, as the entire camp could 

 embark and paddle to a trading vessel in less than five minutes. 



FIR. 90 Arrangement of summer camp at Hotham inlet. 



This was a temporary camp which is located here for a few weeks 

 each summer for the purpose of trading with vessels which cruise in 

 these waters, as well as for meeting and trading with the people from 

 both shores of Bering strait. 



At Point Hope, just north of Kot/ebue sound, was found a large 

 Eskimo village, containing between three hundred and four hundred peo 

 ple, living in conical summer lodges. The winter village of semi-subter 

 ranean houses was on the outer edge of the cape, the summer village 



being nearer the mainland. 



Near Cape Thompson was 

 found a small party of peO- 

 ple, from Point Hope, who 

 were on their way up the 

 coast and were waiting here 

 for better weather. They 

 were living in conical lodges 

 covered with a patchwork 

 of sealskins sewed together. 

 The entrance to each lodge 

 was through a square hole 

 in one side, about two feet 

 from the ground, as shown 

 in the accompanying illus 

 tration (figure 91). 

 At Cape Lisburne was found another camp of Point Hope people on 

 their way northward Two photographs of this camp were obtained, 

 from one of which plate LXXXV was drawn. This camp had the usual 

 conical lodges, some of them being round-topped like those seen at 

 Cape Espenberg. 



FIG. 91 Summer lodge at Cape Thompson. 



