May 13, 1910

Snowhouse building differs here somewhat from the Kittegaryuit who build in a regular spiral from the ground up and cut the snow usually outside the house. Here the snow is probed with a probe about four feet long to see if it is good quality down to the ice and the ice level. Blocks are then cut from the floor of the house first, and so as to have their transverse diameter vertical. The Kittegaryuit  are particular about the size of the blocks having them about uniform. These cut blocks any shape and size, some like a “four square” timber and anything from a foot to four feet long, some squares, some triangles, etc. [...] The wall is not started in a spiral, our north wall When the roof part is in construction the blocks are more regular in shape and of more uniform quality. There was not enough snow in the floor for much more than half the house, a few blocks were spoiled for the snow was not good.