A Winter Settlement in the Duke of York Archipelago 



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Plate III 



A. Two snow huts, their entrances and windows facing south. Sticks and sealing harpoons are planted 



in the walls, and the two sleds are raised on snow-blocks, partly to keep them from being 



buried in a snow-storm and partly to protect their rawhide lashings 



from the dogs 



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B. A view of the whole settlement, showing the dance-house on the right. In the foreground are the 



tracks of the sleds 



