ABSTRACT
The area of Northern Asia, from the Ural mountains to the Pacific Ocean, to the north of the Sayan mountains and the Amur River and including Siberia is furnished with a great diversity of tent types and houses. The area from the Indigirka River to East Cape, Siberia, including the northern part of Kamchatka, is rich in polygonal and cylindrical compound tents. The three-pole foundation is rarely found together with two- or four-pole support structures; it is dispersed among the Northern and Evenki Tungus, Yeniseians, Khanti, Nganasani and the Lapps. The types of tent covers used differ between Northern and Southern Siberia: in the north three separate strips of soft tanned reindeer skins are fastened to the poles with leather thongs and in the south the frame is covered with birch bark softened by boiling before it is sewn together.
