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numerous other remains of habitation which, like the former, may be presumed to originate from the Thule culture. The strong round and oval tent rings, which in Repulse Bay were found closely con- nected with the house ruins, are present in large numbers over the whole area between Repulse Bay and Usugarsuk, always on a higher level and of older appearance than the more lightly-built, more scat- tered tent rings; as an example of how common they are, reference is made to the map, fig. 33, which shows the Eskimo ruins in Pal- mer Bay, between Adderley Bluff and Pt. Elizabeth, drawn during a stay in the settlement Itibdjeriang in February 1922. At Usugarsuk there is, according to the Eskimos, a bear trap which apparently dates from the same period.

North of Usugarsuk these strong tent rings disappear for the reason that there are no stones of which to build them; from here to Iglulik the terrain consists of shore ridges of very small pieces of lime-stone, with only a few scattered larger blocks of limestone and primitive rock among them.

On Iglulik Island, at the east side of Turton Bay, is a point, Ungerlodjan, recognisable by a row of seven small cairns. On a ter- rain about 10 metres above the sea are large numbers of large, oval or oblong stone erections; four of them are 12 metres long, 8 metres. broad; they are built to a height of about half a metre, of flat pieces of limestone, and are broken in many places; three are about 7 metres long, 5 broad, lower, often irregular in form. Round about are 15 tent rings, 2 meat caches and the vegetation is uncommonly luxuriant. This is apparently the place mentioned by Parry,^[1] the point Oonga- loyat, where 15 mounds of loose stones, oval in shape, 5 feet high, 41 to 27 feet long, 18 to 33 feet broad, were seen, of which the Eski- mos said that they had been festival places, used for whale flensing; the stone erections there now answer only very poorly to Parry's regular drawings, and in no place can now be seen the tent rings in the centre of the stone erections of which Parry speaks.

1. Objects brought home by the Fifth Thule Expedition.

A number of specimens, some of them found singly, originate from the same period of culture as the Naujan find; most of them were brought to us by Eskimos who had either found them or had received them from others who had found them; thus the particulars as to these finds are by no means complete, but the objects do give some information about the extent of this old culture and can also add a few new features.