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At 1 is the lower house group, consisting of 5 house ruins situated on fairly flat terrain, about 1 km from the shore and 6.5 m above sea level (high-water mark); only one of these was undisturbed on our arrival, the others having been partly destroyed through the, Aivilik Eskimos having taken material from them the year before, for building 4 autumn houses (qarmat) immediately by the side of the ruins. Three to four hundred metres to the north of this group, and at a similar level above the sea, is one small, very flattened out house ruin. In addition, between the house group and the beach there Image missingFig. 72.Scetch of Kuk and Environs. are some tent rings and meat caches, a kayak-shaped stone erection, 6 metres long, etc. (11); several of these, however, apparently originate from the present inhabitants. On the terrain north of the lower house group there are also several box fox-traps and a grave (built of flat slabs of lime-stone, 1.60 × 0.65 m, running SE.—NW., with the skull to the SE.).

At 2 is the upper house group, about 3 km from the sea and at a height of 12 metres, consisting of 14 house ruins lying in a long row, built into an old shore ridge. From here a low, grass-covered terrain leads down towards an extension of the river, whilst behind the ruins stretches a barren lime-stone plateau. From this house group the sea can only be very faintly glimpsed over towards the mouth of Duke of York Bay. On the lime-stone plateau, just east of the house group, are several meat caches. At 5 there is a salmon dam in the river, at a height of 5.2 m above the sea. The Aivilik Eskimo Anguti-

1) These heights were measured by levelling from the high-water mark at the mouth of the river.

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