for the bed, wliich are rolled up and jjut under the hcncli wlicn nut in use, 

 and ii number of wooden tubs of various sizes— I counlcd nine tiil)s 

 and buckets in one housein Utkiavwin — (•(uniilete the In in it inc. 



Two families usually occupy such a lionsc, in wliicii case carli wife lias 

 her own end of the room and lier own la 

 usually sits to work. Some houses eon 

 more. I knew one house in TTtkiavwifi 

 thirteen in number, namely, a father witli 

 two married sons each with a wife and child, his widowed sisli r with iicr 

 son and his wife, and one little girl. This house was also the fa\orite 

 stopping-place for people who came down from Nii\\fil< to spend the 

 night. The furniture is always arranged in tlie same \\a.\ . 'I'liere is 

 only one rack on the right side of the house and two on the hfl. Of 

 these the father from the lamp is the i.lace for the liinip of snow. In this 

 same corner are kept the tubs, and the large general eliainlter (lot ami 

 the small male urinal are near the trap door. Dishes of cooked meat 

 are also kept in this corner. This leaves the other corner of thc^ house 

 vacant for women visitors, who sit there and sew. Male visitors, as well 

 as the men of the house, when they have nothing to do, usually sit on 



the edge of the iMlKiuette. 



In sleeping tliey usually lie across the banquette with their feet to 

 the wall, but soiuetimes, when there are few people in the house, lie 

 lengthwise, and occasionally sleep on the floor under the banquette. 

 Petitot says that in the Mackenzie region only married people sleep with 

 their heads toward the edge of the banquette. Children and visitors 

 lie with their heads the other way.' (See Fig. 0, ground plan aiidsection 

 of house, and Figs. 10 and 11, interior, from sketches by the writer. 

 For outside see Fig. 12, from a photograph by Lieut. Ray). 



At the back of the house is a high oblong scaffolding, made by set- 

 tingup tall poles of driftwood, four, six, or eight in number, and fasten- 

 ing on cross pieces alxnit s or 10 feet fi-om the ground, usually in two 

 tiers, of which the lower sii|)|(oits the frames of the kaiaks and the 

 upper sjicars ami other Inilky property. Xothiiig except very heavy 

 articles, siiili as sledges, lioxes, and liariels, is (>vcr left on the ground. 

 A man can easily reach this scatfold from tiie to]) of the house, but it is 

 high enoiiuh to he out of leacli of tlie dogs. Tile cross ](ieces are usually 

 sujiported on crotches made by lashing the lower Jaw of a walrus to 

 the ])olc, so that one ramus lies along th.- latter. Scaffolds of this sort, 

 usually spoken of as "caches" or "cache frames," are of necessity used 

 among the Eskimos generally, as it is the only way in which they can 

 jirotect their bulky property.-* 



' Monograiihic, L^tc, p. xxiii. 



»St« for iustanco, CranU, History of i;n,.„l;.i..l, vol. 1, p. 141; Franklin, Ut Expel ™' - ■■ 

 (Coppcntiino Rivor) ; LM Expi'd., p. I'Jl (Moutl, of tl,o .M.irkenzic 



anil 343 (Plover Biiy, Point, liarniw, au.l Tok.r I'oiut) : J. Simpson, 

 denskiold, Vcgiv, vol. 2, p. 9'J (I'itk-kaj). 



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