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areas, March-April 1922–24, we have always met with people at Iglulik and Pingerqalik and also on the ice north of Iglulik, where in April 1923 we came across a snow-house village; in May the same year the inhabitants had moved to Iglulik. In the autumn of 1922 a number of Eskimos lived on salmon fishing at Hall lake; in March we found a deserted snow-house at Sarbaq. the most easterly cove on the lake, and in April 1923 a family, who had no dogs, lived there on salmon fishing.

On the caribou hunts in summer and autumn the Igluliks travel widely in the south of Cockburn Land. There an important settlement is Eqaluit, a point at the mouth of Gifford Fjord, where there are many caribou and salmon. Two years ago some Iglulik families passed the summer at Ingnerit, between Steensby Fjord and Piling.

In Steensby Fjord a group of Eskimos, some of them from Iglulik, some from Ponds Inlet, have settled down and lived there during the past few years. The winter settlement is Manertoq, whence they hunt the walrus from the ice edge, and the seals at the breathing holes. In summer, seals and walruses are hunted from boats, and later on they hunt caribou; the most important summer settlement is C. Thalbitzer (Iglorssuit).

In October 1910 Lavoie^[1] met five Eskimo families at the lake Ivisaroqtoq and six families at the lake Saputit, both places in southwest Cockburn Land; they lived principally on salmon fishing.

Boas^[2] summarises his information on the cycle of occupations of the Iglulingmiut, principally after Parry and Hall, in the following words:

"As soon as the sea begins to freeze up the natives gather on Iglulik, where they hunt the walrus throughout the winter. According to the position of the floe edge, Iglulik, Pingerqalik, or Uglit Islands are the favorite settlements. Later in the winter, when new ice is frequently attached to the floe. parts of the families move to the ice northeast of Iglulik, where seals are caught with the harpoon. Another winter settlement seems to be near Amitoq. In April young seals are hunted in the bays and fiords, particularly in Hooper Inlet — —. As soon as the warm season approaches the natives go deer hunting on Melville Peninsula or more frequently on Baffin Land."

Some further details may be given of a few of the settlements of the Iglulik area:

Iglulik is the most important settlement in the area and of the whole tribe. The locality of Iglulik itself is the south-east corner of Iglulik Island; about a kilometre from the coast there is a number