SIBERIAN ESKIMO 



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Our next view of northern peoples was at Plover Bay 

 in Siberia, which the ship reached a day or two after leav- 

 ing the Pribilof Islands. Here was found an Eskimo vil- 



ESKIMO SUMMER HOUSE AND FIREPLACE, PLOVER BAY, SIBERIA. 



lage, apparently long established; it consisted of half a 

 dozen topeks or summer houses, and a greater number of 

 winter houses, most of which were then unroofed and dis- 

 mantled, and either empty or used as storehouses for casks 

 of oil, skins, 

 sledges, drying 

 frames, and a 

 variety of arti- 

 cles not in pres- 

 ent use. 



The inhabit- 

 ants of the vil- 

 lage numbered 

 perhaps thirty, 

 about twenty 

 men and wo- 

 men and ten 

 children. They 

 were now occupying their summer houses, which were 

 roughly circular in shape, and consisted of vertical walls 

 formed of poles set in the ground, about which skins were 



ESKIMO WOMEN AND CHILDREN, PLOVER BAY. 



