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done in the manner shown in Fig. 17: Haviuyak, with the help of his brother 

 Utuallu, built a large single-roomed hut, while Aksiatak set up a smaller one 

 beside it. Nakitok, the person who is marked as sleeping between Aksiatak 

 and his wife Nik, was their only son, at this time about six years old. 



Fig. 17. Two houses with joined passages, one of which 

 was evidently built before the other 



In this last example the huts were still so separate that they might almost 

 be regarded as independent of one another; but in the case of two that lay along- 

 side of the hut represented in Fig. 13 there could be no possible doubt but that 

 they were built in collaboration. They were inhabited by Ayallik's kinsmen, 

 Kallun and Kaminggok. Kallun's wife was Imilguna, a woman remarkable 

 from the freckles that covered her face, and they had one young daughter, 

 Kungaiyuna. Algik, Kallun's brother, a young man of perhaps eighteen years, 

 lived with them as one of the family. Kaminggok was a shaman whose wife 

 Kalyutarun had given him two children, a little girl named Akana, and a baby 

 boy Okomik. The latter had some disease which kept it from growing, so in 

 the winter of 1915-16, when the Eskimos were very short of food, the mother 

 killed it. It was then about three years old, but could neither talk nor walk, 

 having been bewitched, its mother believed, by some evil spirit. Akana, the 

 other child, was about seven years old, and eager to play at house-keeping, so 

 she set up a hollow pebble on one side of the hut to serve as a lamp. Her mother 

 used to give her the wick and blubber, and the child tended the lamp herself. 

 These two houses were so close together that a conversation carried on in normal 

 tones in one could be plainly heard by the people in the other (Fig. 18). 



A further stage in complexity is reached when the houses actually combine, 

 forming a single two-roomed dwelling Such was the house of Aksiatak and his 

 kinsman Hitkok at Nulahugyuk creek four miles east of Bernard harbour, in 

 November, 1914, before they crossed the strait to join the Puivlirmiut on the 

 other side. Hitkok's household consisted of himself, his widowed sister Iguak 

 and his nephew Hogaluk, a boy of about fourteen years. The rooms were 



