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of the house was owned by persons living there no longer, as for 

 example the long roof-beam (tooicaq) and two of the roof supports 

 by Imaawka and the cross-beams between the long beam and the 

 front wall by Nusukkaliwaq — both of these men had removed to 

 Sermilik. The third roof support was owned by the present master 

 of the house, who also possessed the wall hangings and the boards 

 of the platform. Nappartuko owned a large pot of soapstone in- 

 herited from his ancestors; the bottom had been broken but had 

 afterwards been repaired so cleverly, that the repair could hardly 

 be seen. He owned besides a water-cask with a scoop of wood, a 

 lamp with wick-trimmer and wooden stand, a meat-tray and a dry- 

 ing frame. The beautiful flat stones of the house-floor were said to 

 be nobody's property, but Nappartuko's sister maintained that some 

 beautiful stones near her side-platform, which she had brought with 

 her from the north in the umiak, were her property. 



The old widow Qiwingataaq who died during my stay there, 

 once enumerated to me the following objects as her private property. 

 She owned a soapstone lamp with appurtenances, dripping bowl 

 and pot, a wooden water vessel, a urine tub, a drinking scoop, a 

 plate, a ladle for taking the meat out of the pot, a one-pronged fork, 

 a drying frame and hanging hook, a needle-skin and open skin-bowl 

 for the lamp moss, a knife (cakkiija, 'my knife'), a scraper, a whett- 

 ing stone (ipisaatiija), a hammer (parpaleen), a closable bag ipoorättara, 

 for gathering lamp-moss), platform skins {qatakka), sleeping skins 

 (uliija) and pillow {akisiija), a skin for separating two family stalls 

 (compartments) on the platform (talé), a single roof-skin (itcaq)^ plat- 

 form bars and beams for her special place (ittisad), a roof support 

 (namely, the one nearest her place on the platform, qiwkkaliija), some 

 cross-beams in the framework of the ceiling {paa^"k'^"aatiijd), some 

 beams of the hindmost and innermost part of the platform (kile) 

 and of the side platform (ippat). She declared that if she was going 

 to move, she would leave behind her the last mentioned beams of 

 the house, which she had brought with her from Sermilik and only 

 take away the framework of her own part of the platform. The 

 other parts of the framework of the large house in which she lived 

 at that time, were owned by three great sealers and another old 

 widow (the mother of two of the sealers); and they and several 

 others of the inhabitants owned the skins covering the roof and 

 hanging on the walls. In the inventory given me by Qiwingataaq 

 from memory she has undoubtedly forgotten several things, as, for 

 example, a thimble guard, a bodkin, needles and a sinew twister. 



Skin-bags for keeping moss and other household materials 

 (p. 41 and figs. 25И— 255). — As with the lamps and pots in the 



