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‖ tupik|ˈtuːpɪk|
Also 9 toupik, tupic; topek, tubik.
[Eskimo of Alaska.]
A hut or tent of skins used by Eskimo as a summer residence.
1864C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. ix. 176 On my way,..just outside the angeko's tupic, I noticed an oar of a kia[k] stuck upright in a drift of frozen snow. 1878C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer (ed. 4) 700 Toupik, an Esquimaux summer lodge of poles covered with seal⁓skins. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 152 One of their hunters came across a tupik, a skin-tent. 1898Geogr. Jrnl. Nov. 499 These people [Eskimo], who live in tupiks (tents or huts of skin) in summer, and in igloos, partly excavated, partly stone-built dwellings, in winter. 1900Scribner's Mag. Sept. 297/2 There were three or four tupiks, or sealskin tents, pitched upon the turf at the foot of the talus. 1920W. T. Grenfell Labrador Doctor vi. 129 Wooden huts had largely replaced the former ‘tubiks’, or skin tents. |