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and decides луЬот he will have to live there. Thus we have known 

 an instance of the head of a house having forbidden a young man to 

 live in his house. He gives orders when a move from the tents to 

 the house is to take place; all the families must move simultane- 

 ously, in order to get the house w^armed. I heard Milagtek on such 

 an occasion ordering the gut-skin windows to be put in and the 

 lamps lit. A dozen lamps were then simultaneously lighted, and 

 soon warmed up the house, so that the people could remove their 

 clothes. 



Fig. 38. Milagtek (Knutsen phot. 1885). 



As long as they live together in a house, all the housemates 

 share the game and winter provisions of each member; the owner, 

 however, having the right to decide how far the provisions shall 

 be encroached upon. 



Amongst these people none but skilful hunters are held in re- 

 spect; when young people lose their skill in hunting at an early 

 age, they often become butts for their fellows. The angakut — 

 of whom more anon — play no important part in social life. 



As soon as the youth has become a skilful hunter, he is in a 

 position to marry. A man never leaves off hunting until sheer 

 weakness compels him to desist. An old, white-haired man, about 

 seventy years of age, could be seen only last summer going out in 

 his kaiak, and he occasionally caught two seals a day. His name 

 is Sanersak and he lives at Norsit (fig. 14). 



