Image: EastCapehouses1885ric00653
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Description: Eskimo natives of East Cape Village, Siberia, Russia photographed in front of two houses. The houses appear similar to Chukchi yarangas but the one at left, and possibly both have stone or sod lower walls.. A rack with, probably drying fur skins (foxes), is at left. On the right side of the left tent a stretched seal skin. The tents also covered wih hides.
Title: EastCapehouses1885ric00653
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library ID. Russell, I.C. 653 [1]
Author: Unknown. In the IC Russell collection but Russell was not in the region in 1885
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