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Image missingFig. 4.Naujan. The festival place. a cache near the beach, as is always done and where there are stones in plenty? All unnecessary trouble is foreign to Eskimo ideas. At a height of 17–18 metres there is, east of the settlement, a pair of large, now overturned stone pillars, presumably kayak supports. On the east side of the valley, a little below house III at a height of 10 metres there is an area where large numbers of whale bones protrude from the turf; there is no house ruin here, but the bones lie scattered over a large piece of land; is this an old whale-flensing ground which at that time was at the beach? On the south-east side of the ridge which bounds the valley to the east, there is, at a height of 13–14 Image missingFig. 5.Naujan, seen from SW.

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