Long House
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Posted in Long House, Shelters | No Comments »A longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In archaeology and anthropology, a long house or longhouse is a type of long, narrow, single room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including ...
Yurt
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Posted in Shelters, Yurt | No Comments »A Yurt is a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. Uzbek woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorskii. The word yurt is originally from the Turkic word ...
Yaranga
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Posted in Shelters, Yaranga | No Comments »Yaranga is a tent-like traditional mobile home of nomads of some Northern indigenous peoples of Russia, such as Chukchi. It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins sewn together. A medium-size yaranga requires about 50 skins. Yaranga originates ...