Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson reporting…
TweetInuit shelter construction Winter caribou hunting camp during fall migration of Porcupine caribou herd, extreme eastern Brooks Range south slope, thirty to forty miles south of Shingle Point, Yukon, Canada. October 25, 1906. The village at which we had arrived was made of houses built on the general plan of the dome tent. First they had made a hemispherical framework of pliant willows with a floor space perhaps ten feet across, and a domeshaped roof, so high that a tall…