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and meat caches; just by the mouth of the stream a grave; on the terrace on the left bank of the stream 2 tent rings. Higher up the valley, 100–500 metres from its mouth, are at least 30 graves, of which only 3 are on the left bank; they were nearly all disturbed, however.

In the summer of 1923 I excavated house ruins I, III and most of VIII, an area, 32 metres square, of a refuse heap in front of the

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Fig. 43.Autumn Houses (Qarmat), Qilalukan.

entrance to IV (Field A), a 32 sq. metre area of a refuse heap in front of the entrances to VI and VII (Field C), and a sample excavation, 4 sq. metres, in front of the entrance to V (Field B). The following summer Freuchen excavated the autumn house V and commenced excavating house ruin II. Parsons' collection, dug up by Eskimos, comes from that part of VIII (especially the entrance) which I did not complete and also from XV and XXIV.

Fig. 43 shows, in the foreground, the wall of the new qarmaq V; further back VI can be seen; in the background the valley.

House ruin 1. A circular hollow in the sand terrace, 4.8 metres in diameter, from which a hollow, the doorway, runs westwards. The bottom, sand, was reached after excavating 50 cm. The sand in which the house was built has fallen in about the house, the arrangement

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