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concerned the whole) of summer when they live on hunting aquatic mammals: walrus and narwhal from the ice edge, utoq and breathing-hole hunting of seals and hunting the seal, narwhal or walrus from boats and kayaks. In this period the settlements are on points or islands or on the sea ice itself.

How the annual cycle progresses in detail depends upon the local conditions. At those places where there is good hunting of large aquatic mammals, walruses and narwhals, as at Iglulik and Ponds Inlet, this hunting naturally plays an important part and will often employ a large number of people in summer. Among the Aiviliks, however, caribou hunting is even more predominant than among the Eskimos living more to the north.