MURDOCH.) 



TENTS. 



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frame, so that the edges do not meet in front except at the top, leaving 

 a triangular space or doorway, filled in with a curtain of which part is a 

 translucent membrane, which can be covered at night with a piece of 

 cloth. A string runs from the upper corner of the cloth round the apex 

 of the tent and comes obliquely down the front to about the middle of 

 the edge of the other end of the cloth. The two edges are also held 

 together by a string across the entrance. Heavy articles, stones, gravel, 

 etc., are laid on the nap of the tent to keep it (town, and spears, pad 

 dles, etc., are laid up against the outside. (See Fig. 15, from a photo 

 graph by Lieut. Hay.) 



Inside of the tent there is much less furniture than in the iglu, as the 

 lamp is not needed for heating and lighting, and the cooking is done 

 outdoors on tripods erected over tires. The sleeping place is at the 



Fio. 15. Tent on the beach at TTtkiavwifi. 



back of the tent, and is usually marked off by laying a log across the 

 floor, and spreading boards on the ground. Not more than one family 

 usually occupy a tent. The tents at the whaling camp mentioned above 

 were, at first, fitted out with snow passages and fireplaces like a snow 

 hut, and many had a low wall of snow around them, but these had all 

 melted before the camp was abandoned. 



These tents differ considerably in model from those in use in the east, 

 though all are made by stretching a cover over radiating poles. For 

 example, the tents in Greenland have the front nearly vertical, 1 while at 

 Cumberland Gulf two sets of poles connected by a ridgepole are used, 

 those for the front being the shorter. 2 The fashion at Iglulik is some- 



1 Egede, Greenland, p. 117 ; Crautz, vol. 1, p. 141 ; Kink Tales, etc., p. 

 8 Ruin lit -11. op. cit., p. 33. 



