DCHP-2
tupek Various spellings [< Esk. tupiq] Arctic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a tent of skins, used as a summer dwelling.
See also: Eskimo tent igloo (meaning 1b) 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.
- 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.]