See also: Eskimo tent oomiak-tupek skin tent summer lodge wigwam ((n.)) (def. 1c)
- 1577  (1889)  [Their houses are tentes, made of Seale skinns, pitched vp with 4. Firre quarters, foure square, meeting at the toppe, and the skinnes sewed together with sinewes, and layd thereupon: they are so pitched vp, that the entraunce into them, is alwayes South, or against the Sunne.]
- 1836  [Tent Too-pik.]
- 1860  (1865)  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.
- 1895  We were visiting an encampment of half a dozen "tupeks," and one morning, some of our "Huskie" friends volunteered to go with us in the boats for wood.
- 1959  Occasionally he called our attention to one or more Eskimo tupiks, or skin tents, at the deltas of small rivers.