. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 113.—Paint cup. Nenenot. occurs as a mass of rock along the margin. The waterhas by freezing split great quantities from the mass and when there isa strong wind from the opposite direction the water is often lashed iutoa blood-red foam. DWELLING,*. The Nenenot live, both in summer and in winter, in deerskin tent,(see Fig. 114), which are constructed in the following manner: A suffl-. ? 4- , !^*^.. ••- Fig. 114—^Nenenot Indian tent. cient number of small poles cut from the wo
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 113.—Paint cup. Nenenot. occurs as a mass of rock along the margin. The waterhas by freezing split great quantities from the mass and when there isa strong wind from the opposite direction the water is often lashed iutoa blood-red foam. DWELLING,*. The Nenenot live, both in summer and in winter, in deerskin tent,(see Fig. 114), which are constructed in the following manner: A suffl-. ? 4- , !^*^.. ••- Fig. 114—^Nenenot Indian tent. cient number of small poles cut from the woods are deprived of theirbranches and brought to the camp site. A location is selected and thepoles are erected in a circle, with tops leaning toward the center so asto form a cone 10 to 14 feet in height, having a diameter at its base of TUHNER.] DWELLINGS. 299 from 10 to 18 feet. The skins forraiug the cover are those of the rein-deer, and those selected for this j)urpose are nsnally of au inferiorgrade. A sufficient number are sewed together to form a strip long-enough to reach around the poles when set up. As the tents differ insize according to the number of people who occupy them, the skinssewed together may be from eight to twelve. The first strip is madefor the lower iiart of the poles and is attached to them by means ofstrings fastened within. A second strip is made to go around the up-per part of the poles, and is, of course, correspondingly shorter. It isplaced last s
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