NELSON] KASHIMS 247 
The village of Starikwikhpak above Andreivsky, is built on a high 
bank of the Yukon in the midst of a thick growth of tall alders and 
cottonwoods, and contains about forty people. 
Next above is Razbinsky, containing some twenty-five houses and 
two kashims. It is the largest existing village of the Yukon Eskimo, 
and the only one seen that was arranged with any degree of regu- 
larity. There the winter and summer houses are built together, and 
the rude alignment of the summer houses is evidenced in the illustra- 
tion (plate LXxxir). The summer houses front a small creek which 
flows into the Yukon at that point. Back of them, in a more regular 
arrangement, are most of the winter houses. Near one end of this 
row are two kashims, and immediately back of them is the graveyard, 
the latter forming a part of the village and becoming so offensive in 
summer that it is impossible at times for the fur traders to camp in 
the vicinity. 
The summer houses at this place and all along the Yukon up to 
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SUMMER DOOR AND PASSAGE WAY 
Fic. 77—Section of kashim at St Michael. 
Paimut, the upper Eskimo village on the river, are alike built of heavy 
slabs and planks split and hewed from drift logs. 
Plate LXxxu, from a photograph, is a view taken at Razbinsky in 
winter, showing the tops of some winter houses in the foreground and 
a row of plank summer houses in the background. 
The summer houses throughout this part of Alaska vary so slightly 
in the details of their construction that a description of those seen at 
Razbinsky will serve as typical of all in that region. The front and 
rear ends are constructed of roughly hewed planks set upright; the 
sides are of horizontal timbers hewed and loosely fitted. About five 
feet from the ground a log extends from side to side of the structure, 
resting upon two posts in the middle, with braces at either end, hav- 
ing their ends set in the ground, and connected by similar logs which 
extend from front to rear along the eaves. 
In some houses the braces at the front and rear are replaced by two 
tall poles set in the ground midway between the corners, two or three 
