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1.80 m high, 1.40 m wide. The doorways of these two houses lead into a front room, 2.15 m high, from which lead a small opening into a room for skin clothing and also an entrance-door of wood on hinges, 85 × 45 cm, out to a bigger store room, 1.85 m high, built of five rows of blocks, in which dog harness, meat, etc. are kept; by the side of this is a smaller store room, 1.70 cm high, built of 6 rows of blocks; finally, a wooden door. 95 × 50 cm, leads into a front room, 2.00 m high, built of 6 rows of blocks, which provides a shelter for the dogs; and from this a door, 1.15 × 0.50 m, leads out into the open air.
Fig. 79 shows a bigger snow-house block, built in February, 1922, at Aua's River near Itibdjeriang and inhabited by the same group of Eskimos as the foregoing. The characteristic feature of this is the central system, with a number of small snow houses