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in the longer days of spring. Each hut was inhabited by a separate family. 

 In the first was Ikpakhuak's, which was the same as in Fig. 10, save that a young 

 girl, Arnauyuk or Kila, about fourteen years old, had joined it for a short time 

 before her marriage; in the next hut lived Atigihyuk and his wife Kaiyoranna 

 with their little girl Uvillok; and in the third Hitkok and his kinsfolk. The 

 passage of this third hut had a small recess on one side half way along its length, 

 for the same purpose as the Avidening in the passage represented in Fig. 19. 



Fig. 21. Three single-roomed dwellings with joined passages 



Sometimes two of the three houses coalesce into a single two-roomed dwelling, 

 while the third remains separate, though its passage joins up with the other. 

 This type I observed at the last settlement of the Puivlik Eskimos before they 

 migrated to the coast in December, 1914. The two-roomed hut was the dwelling 

 of Haviuyak and his family (see Fig. 17), while the single hut linked up with 

 it was the home of the two brothers Tunnerittok and Agluak who later went 

 to live with Arnaktak's family (see Fig. 15). 



In November, 1915, a three-roomed dwelling was built at Bernard harbour 

 with a dance-house over the common- fore-court. Two of the rooms contained 

 two families each, while the third had only one. Each family had its separate 

 lamp, and the different members slept in the .usual places; thus the wife slept 



