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Image missingFig. 105.The Malerualik Village. Knud Rasmussen, of the settlement Malerualik. Here the lime-stone terrain rises rather steeply and forms several terraces, corresponding to old shore lines. At the foot, at the height of about 15 metres above sea level, and at a distance from the water edge of 90 metres, there. are 28 house ruins; 20 metres above s. l. and 150 m from the beach is the next row, consisting of 15 ruins; 21 m above s. l. and 270 m from the beach is the third row, consisting of 21 ruins; and finally, 22 m above s. l., 370 m from the beach, 4 ruins. Thus in all there are 68 house ruins and about 100 tent rings (several of them of the strong type met with at Repulse Bay), stone erections for meat depots, stone arrangements for games, and a salmon dam at the river.

The house ruins in the uppermost and lowest rows were the most flattened out and overgrown, often almost obliterated; the houses in the row next but one from the bottom were the best preserved, several of them having the walls fairly well preserved, and the fallen-in roofs could still be seen inside the houses. The houses excavated will be seen on the map: 1 and 2 are in the lowest row, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the next row, 10 in the top but one row and 11, 12 and 13 in the upper row.

House ruin 1. Very flattened and overgrown; few stones. Excavated by Eskimos. There were found in it: harpoon head of Thule type 3; harpoon head of Cape Dorset type (Pl. 82.3); bird harpoon head (Pl. 82.10); sledge shoe; all of antler.