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connecting with the house. As described, these houses are 

 alike in every detail with the "jaw-bone" houses of Bering Strait 

 district (as described by Nelson and Bogoras). Whalerib houses 

 are also found in Baffin island. The Eskimo say that they are 

 similar to the Tunnit houses (see page 149) but may be distin- 

 guished from them by the comparatively narrow ground space 

 occupied by the Tunnit house. 



CAMPING HOUSES (uyalu-'k) . 



These are small circular rock walls (see Figure 11), about 8 by 

 4 feet, which are found set up at prominent lookouts and passes 





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Figure 11. Camp circles in Labrador. 



1. Recent camp circle. Stones for holding down tent, 

 a. Fireplace of rocks. b. Mats of moss for sleeping. 



2. Oldstyle camp for the ancient double deer-skin tent. 

 3. Fire-place with protecting wall to shield from the wind. 



where game was formerly abundant, and served both as a blind 

 and temporary home for the hunter. They are said to have been 

 covered with sealskins. Only the rock walls now remain, and 



Figure 12. Detail of masonry of ungaluk in Suglasuk bay. 



have been taken by some authors for Norse ruins and lookouts. 

 The masonry is characteristically Eskimo, as the following 

 sketch (Figure 12) shows; the detail of which was taken from an 



