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2. Yurt - Wikipedia

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   A traditional Kyrgyz yurt. A Karakalpak bentwood type "yourte" in Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan. Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorsky. A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a ...

3. Goahti - Wikipedia

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   A goahti (Northern Sámi), goahte (Lule Sámi), gåhte (Pite Sámi), gåhtie (Ume Sámi) or gåetie (Southern Sámi), (also gábma), (Norwegian: gamme, Finnish: kota, Swedish: kåta), is a Sami hut or tent of three types of covering: fabric, peat moss or timber. The fabric-covered goahti looks very similar to a Sami lavvu, but often constructed ...

4. Yaranga - Wikipedia

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   A Yaranga is a cone-shaped or rounded reindeer-hide tent. [ 1 ] It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins or canvas sewn together. The word yaranga comes from the Chukchi word for house: jaraŋə (Cyrillic: яраӈы). [ 2 ] In Russian use, the terms chum, yurt and yaranga may be used interchangeably.

5. Qarmaq - Wikipedia

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   Qarmaq (whale bone roof reconstructed) near Resolute, Nunavut. Qarmaq (plural: "qarmat") [1] is an Inuktitut term for a type of inter-seasonal, [2] single-room family dwelling used by Inuit. To the Central Inuit of Northern Canada, it refers to a hybrid of a tent and igloo, or tent and sod house. Depending on the season, the lower portion was ...

6. Architecture of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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   Architecture of Mongolia. Early-20th-century yurt-shaped temple. Architectural generations: yurt, temple and skyscraper. Model of the Maitreya Temple. The architecture of Mongolia is largely based on traditional dwellings, such as the yurt (Mongolian: гэр, ger) and the tent. During the 16th and 17th centuries, lamaseries were built ...

7. Chum (tent) - Wikipedia

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   Chum (tent) Tyvan chums in ethnocultural complex of Aldyn-Bulak, Russia, Tyva. A chum (/ tʃuːm /) is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic (Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Khanty, Mansi, Komi, Selkups) reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia, Russia. The Evenks, Tungusic peoples living in Russia, Mongolia and China also use chums, as do ...