Identifier: inuttermosteastb00hawe (find matches)
Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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shion. The one which we now entered, in Kamavo, wasnot large—about 16 feet long and 13 feet wide ; the sidetimbers rose to a height of about 4 feet 6 inches, and fromthese sprang the obliquely sloping roof of poles for rafters,and slips of bark for tiles. Stooping low, we advanced tothe 3 feet doorway, cautiously assuming a half-erect position,and unsuccessfully attempting to avoid knocking our heads.Accustoming our eyes to the darkness, for there was buta hole in the roof for window and chimney, we made outin the centre a large earth and ash box, 4 feet long and2^ feet broad, on the smouldering logs of which was akettle, and from a rafter above depended a cauldron.Around the two sides and further end of the hut ran arude bench or dais (nakh), 15 inches from the groundand about 4 feet in width, leaving a narrow gangwaybetween it and the fire (tur). On the nakh were seatedseveral Gilyaks, a mother with a baby, a girl smoking, andthree or four men. Above hung a melee of articles, from
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IN THE BAY OF NI 193 a babys cradle to a rude axe for hewing out canoes. Thecradle, of wood, shaped like a scoop without the handle,was strung to a cross-pole by thongs of seal-hide. Onthe bench and hanging above were fishing-nets, birch-barkbowls for water or seal-oil (p. 203), dried fish-skins, dog-skins, winter clothes,seal-oil in seals stomachs, etc. Perhapsthe state of the atmosphere is best left to the readersimagination. Having photographed the interior, thoughwith but poor result, owing to the prevailing darkness, Iturned my attention to two or three works of art. Twosmall flat pieces of wood cut into the forms of a disc anda crescent hung from a beam. These represented the sunand the moon, and were used as charms. There were alsotwo sticks, with shavings on, similar to the one I havedescribed as protecting the canoe during its constructionfrom evil spirits ; but these particular ones, I learnt, werefor placing over a sick child, and would ensure its recovery. But no signs of

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