Qargi
TRADITIONAL DWELLING TYPE
Qargit; Qasgi; Qasgiq; Qaygiq; Kashim; Men's community house; Communal men's house; Kariyit
Qargi (), Qasgi or Qasgiq (by the Yup'iks), Qaygiq (by the Cup'iks), Kashim (by the Russians), Kariyit,James M. Savelle (2002), The Umialiit-Kariyit Whaling Complex and Prehistoric Thule Eskimo Social Relations in the Eastern Canadian Arctic , Bulletin of National Museum of Ethnology 27(1): 159–188 (2002) a traditional large semi-subterranean men's community house' (or "communal men's house, men's house, ceremonial house, council house, dance house, communal gathering place") of the Yup'ik and Inuit, also Deg Hit'an Athabaskans (at Anvik, Alaska), was used for public and ceremonial occasions and as a men’s residence.