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Model Of Summer LodgeE1737-0

FROM CARD: "DEER SKIN. 2 PARTS."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/277 , retrieved 12-27-2019: Tent Model; object is not further analyzed or described on site. More general information on tent models here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/55: The MacFarlane collection includes models of tents with wooden tent poles and caribou skin covers. Poles of full-size tents were typically about 4 metres in length, and were fastened together at the top and spread out to form a cone. Caribou skins were usually used as tent cover. Tents were used for shelter in summer, and were attached to the entrances of winter sod house dwellings and used for cooking over open fires.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Model Of Summer Single LodgeE1714-0

From card: "Deer skin."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/156 , retrieved 12-19-2019: Tent model; object is not further analyzed or described on the site. More general information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/55: The MacFarlane collection includes models of tents with wooden tent poles and caribou skin covers. Poles of full-size tents were typically about 4 metres in length, and were fastened together at the top and spread out to form a cone. Caribou skins were usually used as tent cover. Tents were used for shelter in summer, and were attached to the entrances of winter sod house dwellings and used for cooking over open fires.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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Model of Summer Tent PolesE1637-0

FROM CARD: "1 SET."Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/124 , retrieved 12-17-2019: Five wood poles that form the frame of a small tent model. Each of the poles has a hole drilled at one end. The poles would have been tied together with a thong passing through those holes when the tent was set up. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/55: The MacFarlane collection includes models of tents with wooden tent poles and caribou skin covers. Poles of full-size tents were typically about 4 metres in length, and were fastened together at the top and spread out to form a cone. Caribou skins were usually used as tent cover. Tents were used for shelter in summer, and were attached to the entrances of winter sod house dwellings and used for cooking over open fires.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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