CURIOUS ESQUIMAU LIVING.
"Furniture is quite unknown in a common Esquimau home," writes the wife of the Danish Governor of Greeland, Anna Bistnip, in an article on "Esquimau Women in Greenland," in the Century Magazine. "The houses of the Esquimau are all built of stone and turf, with the windows opening behind on the side that is least exposed to the wind. Along the back walls runs a platform, a pallet of boards, raised eighteen inches above the iloor. It is from six to eight feet deep, and through its whole length of it is divided into rooms or spaces of eight to ten feet. Each room is separated from the neighboring room by a partition of boards or akin. An open passage runs the whole length of the house along the pallet rooms and serves from the traffic of all the inmates; but each pallet room claims for its own a bit of the passageway adjoining. "Each pallet, room is occupied by one family, and there they stay night ano. day. The best pallet room is the innermost, and is always occupied by the owner of the house, or the oldest, if the house lias more than one owner."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 97, 14 October 1911, Page 11
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200CURIOUS ESQUIMAU LIVING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 97, 14 October 1911, Page 11
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