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.
Curtis, Edward S.
1899
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