MURDOCH. ] HOUSES. C6 
Greenlanders, of which there is only one at each village, will be found 
in Capt. Holm’s paper in the Geografisk Tidskrift, vol. 8, pp. 87-89. This 
is the long house of West Greenland, still further elongated till it will 
accommodate “half a score of families, that is to say, 30 to 50 people.” 
John Davis (1586) describes the houses of the Greenlanders “‘neere the 
Sea side,” which were made with pieces of wood on both sides, and 
crossed over with poles and then covered over with earth.! 
At Iglulik the permanent houses were dome shaped, built of bones, 
with the interstices filled with turf, and had a short, low passage.’ No 
other descriptions of permanent houses are to be found until we reach the 
Fic. 13.—Ground plan and section of winter house in Mackenzie region. 
people of the Mackenzie region, who build houses of timbers, of rather 
a peculiar pattern, covered with turf, made in the form of a cross, 
of which three or all four of the arms are the sleeping rooms, the floor 
being raised into alow banquette.? (See Fig. 13.) Petitot* gives a very 
excellent detailed description of the houses of the Anderson River people. 
According to his account the passageway is built up of blocks of ice. He 
mentions one house with a single alcove like those at Point Barrow.® 
We have no description of the houses at the villages between Point 
Barrow and Kotzebue Sound, but at the latter place was found the 
1 Hakluyt, Voyages, ete. (1589), p. 788. 
2Lyon, Journal, p. 171. 
3See Fig. 13, ground plan and section, copied from Petitot, Monographie, etc., p. XXIU. 
4 Monographie, ete., p. XXI. 
5See also Franklin, 2d Exped., p. 121 (Mouth of the Mackenzie), and pp. 215 and 216 (Atkinson 
Island, Richardson. A ground plan and section closely resembling Petitot’s are given here); and 
Hooper, Tents, ete., p. 243 (Toker Point). 
