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sandspit where the snow was deep enough to build a house, and the passages were 

 made separate to keep the dogs of the two famihes from fighting with one an- 

 other. Kanaiyok's family consisted, besides himself, of his wife Akulluk, their 

 baby daughter Kavva, and his father Tupik. With Arnaktak were his wife 

 Kulahuk and her Uttle son Tannaumik, and two single men, brothers, not closely 

 connected with the family, named Tunnerittok and Agluak; in the previous 

 settlement which the Eskimos had just abandoned these two men had lived in 

 a hut of their own (see Fig. 21). 



Sometimes, as in Fig. 16, two houses comparatively far apart have their 

 passages joined near the entrance. This is convenient in stormy weather, wheii 

 the snow drifts into the passageways and requires constant shovelling. One 

 of these huts was inhabited by a man named Haviuyak, his wife Pikhugyuk, 

 and their unmarried son Avalittok ; in the other dwelt Kuniluk, his wife Kormiak 

 and their three boys, Niptanatsiak, Taipanna and Kulitana, the last a baby 

 about twelve months old. 



Fig. 16. Two houses erected some distance apart, but jomed at their entrances 



When I joined the settlement of Puivlik Eskimos on the coast of southwest 

 Victoria island in November, 1914, I went to live in a double hut similar to that 

 represented in Fig. 19, one side of which was inhabited by a man named Haviuyak 

 and his wife Itokanna, the other by Haviuyak's father Haviron and his two 

 younger brothers, Utuallu, a youth of about sixteen years and Haugak, a boy of 

 perhaps eight (see Fig. 22). About a week later an Eskimo named Aksiatak 

 brought his family across the straits and joined the settlement, partly for the 

 sake of company, but mainly because he was short of food and the Puivlir- 

 muit had an abundance of caribou meat and fish. He then built a separate 

 hut on the outskirts of their settlement; but three weeks later, when the whole 

 band migrated some four miles along the coast, he arranged with Haviuyak 

 that they should build their huts together side by side, each with a short passage 

 of its own where the dogs of the two households could sleep apart. This was 



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