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 ...