tupiks

When I went ashore at Cape York I found there four or five families, living in their summer tupiks, or skin tents, From them I learned what had happened in the tribe in the last two years; who had died, in what families children had been born, where this family and that family were then living -- that is, the distribution of the tribe for that particular summer.

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

As a rule little clothing is worn in the tupiks in warm weather, as the normal summer temperature is around fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and in the strong sunlight may go as high as eighty-five or even ninety-five.

The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888

Situated on a gently southward sloping knoll are the igloos and tupiks, where I have spent many pleasant days with my Esquimo friends and learned much of the folk-lore and history.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

The _tupiks_ (tents) are made of sealskin, and are used in summer.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

We stopped at Kookan, the most prosperous of the Esquimo settlements, a village of five tupiks (skin tents), housing twenty-four people, and from there we sailed to the ideal community of Karnah.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888