shelter

The Eskimos had a few ways of make houses for the seasons. When they made things to sleep in they made tents. In the summer they make tents because of the weather was warmer. In the winter they would use sod houses, which are igloo. A sod was made out of ice and snow to make a warm spot in the sod house. The sod house kept them very warm in the winter when it was in the negatives. A tent kept them cooler in the summer when it was hotter out and the was not much snow on the ground. The tent was made of skin. Any animal that they killed became a peace of cloth or something to make tents. In the winter the Eskimos lived in sod house on the sea ice in winter they hunted seals and walruses. In autumn, Inuit caught large numbers of fish; and fish and meat were dried in preparation for the winter months. Plants and bird eggs gathered in the warmer months supplemented a diet of meat and fish. When spring arrived, Inuit moved off the sea ice and dispersed in to smaller family groups. They traveled to inland hunting grounds where there were caribou, muskoxen and fish. Summer life was more nomadic with tents and other belongings carried on their backs and their dogs.