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OMAHA DWELLINGS, FURNITUEE, ETC. 



[ETH. ANN. 13 



12 feet liigli, 10 or 15 feet in diameter at the bottom, ami about a foot and 

 a half in diameter at the top, which served as a smokehole (4ihu5[a"). 

 Besides the interior tent poles (;ici — 3, figure 309) and the tent skin 

 ((jiha — 1), the tent had the ^i(j'uma°lia", or the place where the skins were 

 fastened together above the entrance (i). The ^if uma"ha" was fastened 



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Fig. 308. — Omah:i tent (from a plioto^aph by W. II. Jaokson). 



with the :;lhu^-ubaxa"(o), which consisted of sticks or pieces of hide thrust 

 crosswise through the holes in the tent skins. The bottom of the tent 

 was secured to the ground by pins (jihufugada" — 6) driven through 

 holes (^^ihugaqfuge) in the bottom of the skins, made when the latter 

 were tannedand before thej^had become hard. The entrance (^ijebe) was 



