DCHP-3

summer lodge

Arctic
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tent of skins, used as a summer dwelling.

See: tupek

Quotations

1850
Most of them had moved for a while into their summer lodges, which consisted of little else than a seal-skin tent, clumsily supported with sticks.
1897
. . . his summer lodge is made of oil-tanned seal or deer-skins, neatly sewn together, and supported by poles . . . or pieces of drift-wood spliced together.
1963
The first Eskimo summer lodges were found the next day.