jrrniincH.] HOl'SKS. •J'J 



Greenlanders, of wliicli there is only one :tt cucli villiisv, will he loimd 

 in Gapt. Holm's pap.i in tlir ( ;r(,oi;iiisl< Tidskiift, vol. S, pp. M7-.S!). 'Piiis 

 is the long house o I' West (ueeulaiid. still lui'tliei- eloii^aled liil ii xvijl 

 accommodate "half a sroie of families, thai is lo say, oO to .■)(! people" 

 John Davis (ir)S(;) drseiihes the housrs of the tl leeiilaiideis '• iieere the 

 Sea side," which were made with ])ieees of wood on liolh sides, and 

 crossed over with jioles and then covered ov.'r witli earth.' 



At lo-lulik the permanent houses were dome shapeil, l.iiilt of l.om-s, 

 with the iiiterstic.-s tilled with tnrf, and had a shoii, low passa-v.^' N,', 

 Other descriptions of permanent houses are tolx'tound until we rea<-h I lie 



peoi)leof the .Mackenzie iv.uion, who Imild houses of timbers, of rather 

 a jiecailiar iiattern. co\<'ivd with turf, made in the form of a cross, 

 of which three or all four of the arms are the sleeping rooms, the HocU' 

 being raised into alow l.ancpu'tte.^ (See Fig. i:i.) Petitot^ gives a \ cry 



excellent detailed desciii)tionoftheh(mses of the Anderson River] jile. 



Ac,cordiiigfohisa<-<-oiint the ]iassageway isl.uilt u]) of blocks of ice. lie 

 mentions one house with a single alcov<' like those at Point lianow." 



\V<' have no description of the houses at tlu^ villages between Point 

 Barrow and Kotzehin' Sounil, but at the latter place was tbuiid the 



'See also I'raulilin, 2(1 Exped., p. 121 (Mmitli »!' Ilii' Maikiiiziil. i 

 Island, Richardson. A ground plan aiul section closely rcscmbliiiji I 

 Hooper, Tcuts, etc., p. 243 (Toker I'oint). 



