Identifier: annualreportofbu1118891890smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ly prevailing at that season. Here they must sojourn until the ice breaks from the shores of thecoves and bays, enabling the hunters to procure seals from the sea.Along the shores one may often find camping sites of these poor wan-derers searching through the day for food and at night camping underthe lee of a wall of rock with little other covering than that worn diu-ing the day and this often soaked with spray or rain. Improvidence and indolence result in the most cruel privationstoward the eud of winter. Many who are too weak and emaciatedfrom lack of food to pursue the chase to gain a living starve beforereaching the sea and are left to perish. When the season is more advanced, and the weather warm enough,those who are industrious and provident enough to be the possessorsof sealskin tents, move into them for the season. The skin tent (PI. xxxvii) is usually made of the skins of the largestsquare flipper seals, those too heavy for any other purpose or not nec-essary foi other uses.
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TuraEu.) THE TENT. 227 The number of skins necessary to form a tent varies with the sizerequired. Generally as many as ten to fifteen are used, and such atent will accommodate a good sized family. The hair is seldom removed from the skin, which is simjjly stretchedas it comes from the animal and freed from fat and fleshy particles.The edges are trimmed and a sufticient number of skins are sewed to-gether to form a length for one side of the tent. The length of the in-dividual skins makes the height of the tent. A similar width is pre-l)ared for the opposite side. The two pieces meet at the rear of thestructure and are there tied to the poles. A separate pieces forms thedoor and may be thrown one side when a person enters or goes out.The poles of the tent are arranged as follows: Two pairs of jxdesarejoined near the ends with stout thongs and erected with the lower endsspread to the proper width, forming the ends of the tent, on which theridgeijole is laid. A single pole is now placed

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