. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Dwellings 81 removed, or sometimes both deerskins and sealskins combined; a family from Prince Albert sound had a tent even of musk-ox skins. Walking-sticks, ice-pick handles, and fish-spears serve for poles, with the addition of one or two light sticks that are generally carried along for this specific purpose. The doorway is more open than in the spring tent, since the ends are rarely long enough to meet in front without making the interior too restricted; even with the end partly open the occupants barely have room
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Dwellings 81 removed, or sometimes both deerskins and sealskins combined; a family from Prince Albert sound had a tent even of musk-ox skins. Walking-sticks, ice-pick handles, and fish-spears serve for poles, with the addition of one or two light sticks that are generally carried along for this specific purpose. The doorway is more open than in the spring tent, since the ends are rarely long enough to meet in front without making the interior too restricted; even with the end partly open the occupants barely have room to stretch themselves out at night. Such a tent is comfortable and airy enough in fine weather, but it affords very poor shelter in a storm. The rain drips through the seam along the ridge, and the wind beats in through the open door while the poor Eskimo crouches shivering within. He can raise it up on walls of turf, or in the fall on snow- blocks, and block his door with a spare skin, but these are sorry makeshifts; so, before the rigour of the autumn overtakes him, he generally retraces his foot- steps and recovers the heavy tent he used in f Pho+o by R, M. Anderson) Fig. 28. A summer tent at the fishing lake behind Bernard harbour The interior arrangement of the summer tent differs in no way from the spring tent as above described. Often both in spring and summer two tents are joined together so as to have a common entrance, like the common passage of a two-roomed hut. They then lie, not in a straight line, but at an obtuse angle with one another so that the walls meet together on the side facing the common door. Just as in the snow-hut, more than one family sometimes sleep in a single tent; but, as every household has a tent of its own, this seldom occurs except when one is visiting another, or when a party wanders off on a hunting or fishing excursion for a few days, and leaves most of its property behind. All over the country the Eskimos have left traces of thei
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