80 THE POINT HAK'KOW ESKIMO. 



people who sit close together (ami tlicn. curiously i'iioii.i;li, a brothel). 

 At Utkiavwiii they arc situated al)out the luiddlr of the village, oue 

 close to the bank and tlie otlu-is at tli.- otlicrcd-c .it the village. They 

 are built like the uUwv limiscs. but air bioad.T than long, with the 

 ridgepole in the nn.bllc, so tluit tiic two slojics of tlic roof are equal, 

 and are not coNiTi'd with turf, like the dwellings, being only iiartially 

 banked up witli eaitli. 



The (uie visited by Lieut, b'ay on the occasion of tlie"tr«'e danee" 



was 10 by L'O fe.'t anil 7 feef hi.^h under the rid,i;-e. and held sixty ] pie. 



Ill the fall aud spring, when it is warm enough to sit iii the kii'dyigi 

 without fire and with the window oiu-n, it is used as a general lounging 

 place or club room by the men. Those, who have car]ieutering and sim- 

 ilar work to do bring it there and otln^rs come ,sim])ly to lounge and 

 gossip aud hear the latest news, as the hunters when they come iu gen- 

 erally repair to the ku'dyigi as soon as they have put away their 

 equipments. 



They are so fond of this general resort that when nearly the whole 

 village was eneanqicd at Imekinin in the sjiring of ]S,s,{, to be near the 

 whaling ground, they extemporized a club house by arranging four 

 timbers large enough for seats in a hollow square near the middle of 

 the camj). The men take turns in catering for the club, each nian's 

 wife furnishing and cooking the food for the assembled party when 

 her husband's turn comes. The did) house, however, is not used as a 

 sleeping place for th.' men of the villagi'. as it is said to be in the terri- 

 tory south of Jicrin.u Strait.' nor as a hotel lor visitors, as in the Nor- 

 ton Sound region.- \isitors are either entertained in some dwelling or 

 build temporary snow huts for themselves. 



The ku'dyigi is not used iu the \viuter, prol)ably on account of the 

 difflcidty of warming it, exce^jt on the occasions of the dances, festivals, 

 or conjuring ceremonies. Crevices iu the walls are then covered with 

 blocks of snow, a slab of transparent ice is fitted into the window, aud 

 the house is lighted aud heated with lamps. Buildings of this sort 

 and used for essentially the same purposes have been observed among 

 nearly all knowai Eskimo, except the Greenlanders, who, however, 

 still retain the tradition of such structures.^ Even the Siberian Eski- 

 mo, who have abandoned the iglu, still retained the kii'dyigi until a 

 recent date at least, as Hooper saw at Ooug-wy-sac a performance in a 

 "large tent, apparently erected for and devoted to public purposes 

 (l>ossibly as a council room as well as a theater, for in jjlace of the 



16 and elsewhere; Petroff, Eop. p. 128 .and elaewhero. 



