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In the foreground are the aerolites and two families of Eski-
mos that are availing themselves of the opportunity to renew
the cutting edges of their knives and harpoon heads. One family
consisting of the father, mother, grown son and small child, has
taken possession of one of the numerous "kangmah" or small stone
shelters constructed by their long-dead ancestors, and in front
of this the woman is preparing a meal of seal meat which she is
heating in a stone pot over a stone lamp. The child stands near
her eating a piece of the raw meat.
Kneeling beside the aerolite is the young man, with one of the
rounded trap stones grasped in both hands. With this he is en-
gaged in the arduous labor of laminating some small prominence o
of the aerolite by continuous pounding in the same spot, until a
small flake becomes partially separated and can be removed.
The father, seated upon his sledge, which for convenience
has been drawn near the aerolites, is engaged in the skilled
labor of joining and fitting the bits of iron detached by-his
son into the groove of a bone handle to form as continuous a
cutting edge as possible. The dogs of this family, four in
number, are tied to one of thenumerous gneissose boulders in
the background.
The second family has just arrived and comprises a man, his
2
wife and a baby, carried in the mother's hood. While the man is
untangling the traces of his dogs, three in number, preparatory
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