. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 174 GRINNELL with dried, stretched hides of walrus and the great seal. These houses are warm and comfortable, but of course close and smoky. As soon as the weather grows warm in spring the people move into the summer houses and pull the roofs off the winter ones, sometimes taking down the sods as well, so that the interior of the winter houses may be exposed to sun and wind, and may dry. All through the village, on poles and frames, hung the various property of the inhabitants — deer skins, some of them of the domesticated Siberian reindeer
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 174 GRINNELL with dried, stretched hides of walrus and the great seal. These houses are warm and comfortable, but of course close and smoky. As soon as the weather grows warm in spring the people move into the summer houses and pull the roofs off the winter ones, sometimes taking down the sods as well, so that the interior of the winter houses may be exposed to sun and wind, and may dry. All through the village, on poles and frames, hung the various property of the inhabitants — deer skins, some of them of the domesticated Siberian reindeer obtained by trade from the Chukchis of the adjacent interior, others of the caribou or wild reindeer of the American coast; on drying frames were spread the skins of seals and walruses, while scattered all about were seal nets, inflated seal bladders, the inflated complete skins of seals, turned inside out and drying — to be used as walrus floats, or perhaps as oil cans, or perhaps merely as sacks in which to transport property. Standing or hanging against the sides of the houses were harpoons, spears, and paddles; seal nets made of slender strips of rawhide — sealskin — while between the posts, all about the village, were stretched great lengths of seal and walrus hide, cut into slender lines, to be used for making dog harness, for lines to be attached to the harpoon when hunting, and in mak- ing seal nets. Three or four bone frames were seen, formed of the curved ribs of the whale, which reminded one somewhat of one of the Plains sweathouses. Under ESKIMO MAN AND WOMAN, PLOVER BAY. i r ,y .?> ?, -, each one of these there had been a fire, and under one the fire was still burning and a pot was boiling over it. It was apparent that this village had been occupied for a. 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
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