. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIAN ESKIMO I7I Our next view of northern peoples was at Plover Bay in Siberia, which the ship reached a day or two after leav- ing the Pribilof Islands. Here was found an Eskimo vil-. ESKIMO SUMMER HOUSE AND FIREPLACE, PLOVER BAY, SIBERIA. lage, apparently long established; it consisted of half a dozen topeks or summer houses, and a greater number of winter houses, most of which were then unroofed and dis- mantled, and either empty or used as storehouses for casks of oil, skins, sledges, drying frames, and a variety of arti- cles not i
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIAN ESKIMO I7I Our next view of northern peoples was at Plover Bay in Siberia, which the ship reached a day or two after leav- ing the Pribilof Islands. Here was found an Eskimo vil-. ESKIMO SUMMER HOUSE AND FIREPLACE, PLOVER BAY, SIBERIA. lage, apparently long established; it consisted of half a dozen topeks or summer houses, and a greater number of winter houses, most of which were then unroofed and dis- mantled, and either empty or used as storehouses for casks of oil, skins, sledges, drying frames, and a variety of arti- cles not in pres- ent use. The inhabit- ants of the vil- lage numbered perhaps thirty, about twenty men and wo- men and ten children. They were now occupying their summer houses, which were roughly circular in shape, and consisted of vertical walls formed of poles set in the ground, about which skins were. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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