Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
Page 51
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It is in a stone house forward of the residence of Mr. [illegible] enclosed with a grained fence. Around these houses are other buildings with high rock foundations tarred and surmounted by a low shiel. These are dwelling places and store houses. Then there is the house of the assistant to the [illegible], the shiel, the parsmaige and quite a number of native huts. The huts of the natives are very low square houses built of drach laid in rod. From the top which is flat emerge a very slender short smoke pipe. In one side there is usually a window about 2x2 feet. These huts are very small and decidedly more primitive than those at Brohaven. Upon the while they are one in the houses. In front of all the houses there is a sluch frame sup- ported by four poles. Upon these the food is drived & skins are hung and the flitch laid. This is a precaution against the dogs which will eat everything except tin cans and rods. This being Sunday, the women are dressed in their best clothes. Their hair may be done up in the syclic knot or may be done up in braids or tied back of the head. Their waist piece