Eskimo summer house, or topek, constructed of reindeer skins stretched over poles, Plover Bay, Siberia, July 1899.
From album entitled: A Souvenir of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, May - August, 1899. Volume II, Cook Inlet to Bering Strait and the Return Voyage, leaf 161. Shows inflated seal skins hanging from dwellings. Caption on image: Eskimo Village--Plover Bay Photograph taken by Edward S. Curtis, official photographer, member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. *Subjects (LCTGM): Yuit Eskimos--Structures--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay; Hides & skins *Subjects (LCSH): Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Yuit Eskimos--Dwellings--Russia (Federation)--Plover Bay; Plover Bay (Russia)
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- 1899-07-01
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- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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- 633 × 510 pixels
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