1887] Recent Literature. 755 
= adopted do we find that several chambers or dwellings are so 
placed as to cluster on at least three sides about the original 
structure, which insures by this arrangement additional protec- 
tion and proximity. There are many facts to adduce in support 
of the clustering character of the dwellings, but as they involve 
so many considerations, a. discussion of them will be deferred for 
another occasion. 
Where wood is scarce and large pieces are met with but few 
times in the course of an Eskimo’s life, those few large pieces are 
= teserved to furnish him with props or supports for his tent in 
_ Summer, or for the frame of his umiak, or the shafts of his spears 
and other necessities, which are greater to him than fuel to cook 
| his food or to make warmth. There the turf or stone-walled 
_ hutis the kind of dwelling, while the snow hut is from its nature 
= awinter edifice only, 
= The Eskimo of Southern and Western Alaska know of the 
snow hut only by tradition. Only in the extreme northern part 
of Alaska do we begin to find the snow-blocks employed as ma- 
terial from which to construct a dwelling; thence eastward the 
use of that substance is common as far as the Eskimo extend. 
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dwellings for themselves, with the exception of those directly 
f th 
n pe either material by itself. Instead of the huge kashguh, 
or‘ club- | 
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= pa year in any locality, the honoring of the dead and change 
