A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 282
nginto small chambers, open toward a central room,each accommodating one family. Aleut houseswere also of sods laid up to form walls and roof.(See Barabara and Yourt.) —F. S. Dellenbaugh. IGLUGEAK. (From the Innuit (Eskimo)iglu; house.) The Eskimo (Esquimaux) dome-shaped snowhouse. When the Eskimo… … em hemisphere. For the best results, snowmust be deep and compact enough to permithomogeneous blocks to be cut out with the snowknife, an implement of bone, shaped like a shortHword ; or with a stitt steel saw wlion this canbe obtained. A proper site being .selected onsome deep drift, a small block…
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