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at the isthmus of Amitsoq Peninsula, where they were hunting caribou. In March 1923 I met the same group again at Kingatjuaq, where they were hunting seal and walrus. In February 1924 Eskimos lived in this area at Anangiarssuk, Umiarfik and on the northern point of Amitsoq, where they were occupied in ice-hunting for seals and walrus from the ice edge.

Amitsoq seems to have been an important settlement in earlier times; Parry did not visit it but often heard it spoken of by the Eskimos. Hall visited it on February 23rd, 1867, but found it uninhabited. It was also uninhabited when I was there in March 1922, and only a few cairn stones and tent rings of lime gravel on the flat, lime-gravel point showed that this was an old settlement.

A man about 60 years old, Ivaluartjuk, informed me of the following cycle of occupations in the Iglulik Area itself:

The spring was spent at Iglulik, at Qeqertârtjuk on the north-east end of Iglulik Island and on the ice north of it, hunting utoq seal. Before the ice broke up they carried a part of the blubber to Qupersortuaq, on the mainland south of Iglulik, and cached it there. In summer, walrus and seal were hunted with kayak and boat, first from Iglulik, Alarnang and Pingerqalik, and later, when the ice had quite disappeared, from Arversiorvik, a little way inside of Pingerqalik. In September the old men went to the island Apatdleq, just west of Iglulik, where they continued walrus hunting, whilst the young men went caribou hunting, partly on the mainland within Richards Bay and Hooper Inlet and round Hall's Lake, partly on the north side of Fury and Hecla Strait. When the ice formed and the hair of the caribou became too long to be suitable for clothing skins, the skins were taken to Apatdleq, where the sewing of caribou skins took place. About new year they assembled again at the two winter settlements Iglulik and Pingerqalik and hunted the walrus from the ice edge and seals at the breathing holes.

Of late years Arpatdleq seems to have been abandoned as an autumn settlement; in the spring of 1922 I saw the deserted snow-house village where the caribou skins had been sewn, at Ungerlôdjan,^[1] the naze east of Turton Bay on Iglulik Island, and in the spring of 1923 I saw it at Arnarquagssâq,^[2] just west of this bay. Qeqertârtjuk does not seem to be so much used as a spring settlement within recent years either, but Iglulik itself. Furthermore, Arversiorvik has been replaced as a summer settlement by the nearby Ungerlôdjan (not to be confused with the place of the same name on Iglulik Island). On the occasions on which we have visited these