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chained_bear commented on the word nenglu
"Centuries ago, the Eskimos of St. Lawrence Island, who called themselves the "Real People," lived according to clan in semisubterranean homes called "nenglus," along the shore, and subsisted on whales, walrus, seal, polar bear, fish, water birds, and eggs, and trapped arctic fox and polar bear for fur. The roofs of these nenglus were built of sod stabilized inside by the jawbones and rib bones of whales."
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 174–175
September 17, 2008