Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . BRAIDING A BOWSTRING. Their habitations in summer consist of tupiks, ortents, of sealskin, and in winter of igloos built of stoneschinked with moss, covered with moss and turf, andbanked in with snow. In the spring and when travel-
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . BRAIDING A BOWSTRING. Their habitations in summer consist of tupiks, ortents, of sealskin, and in winter of igloos built of stoneschinked with moss, covered with moss and turf, andbanked in with snow. In the spring and when travel-ling, a snow igloo built of cut blocks of snow serves asa dwelling.^ For sustenance these people depend en- The winter habitations of the Whale-Sound Eskimos are known under thegeneral term, igloo. There are really three varieties of these dwellings, to onlyone of which is the name igloo applied by the Eskimos themselves : 1st, igloo,—a hut the walls and entire roof of which are built solely of stones. 2d, kangiiiah,—a hut the walls and a portion only of the roof, or perhaps 502 Northward over the Great Ice tirely upon the resuhs of the hunt, which is energetic-ally prosecuted whenever practicable against the wal-rus, the seal, the deer, the bear, narwhal, white whale,. STRETCHING A SEALSKIN TO DRY. fox, and hare. While they can hardly be said to behunted, yet thousands and thousands of sea-birds, little the walls only, of which are built of stones, the gap in the roof being coveredwith skins. 3d, iglooyah,—a hut built entirely of snow blocks. The igloos proper were undoubtedly all built generations ago, when the peo-ple had absolutely no wood, and their rude weapons enabled them to capturebarely enough game to furnish skins for their clothing, without any to spare forcovering their houses. The kangmah is merely a simplified igloo, rendered possible by the increasedprosperity of the tribe. It is much easier to build only the narrower portion ofthe roof of stones, and cove
Size: 1837px × 1360px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjecteskimos, bookyear1898
