Yaranga

[1] It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins or canvas sewn together.

There is a smaller cabin called a polog built inside it, that can be kept warm and cozy.

[3] The most numerous of the Siberian Yupik peoples, the Chaplino Eskimos (Ungazigmit) had a round, dome-shaped building for winter.

It was separated from the outer, cooler parts of the yaranga with haired reindeer skins and grass, supported by a cage-like framework.

Household duties were done in the larger outer room of the yaranga in front of this inner building.

Yupik natives of East Cape Village, Siberia, Russia photographed in 1885 in front of two houses. The houses appear similar to Chukchi yarangas. A rack with, probably drying fur skins (foxes), is at left. On the right side of the left tent a stretched seal skin. The tents also covered with hides.