Info from archive: 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. Date: 1899.
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