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Here are the principal tent designs of the nomads of the world, illustrated with over a hundred line drawings and diagrams. They are revealed in all their practicality and variety of framework and covering: the black tents of North Africa, Arabia, Iran and further East, including the mat and skin tents of the same area; the highly sophisticated yurts of the central Asian Steppe; the birch-bark and reindeer-skin tents of Siberia and Lapland; the skin and bone tents of the Eskimos; lastly al the range of North American Indian tents culminating in the tipi of the Plains tribes, the most ingenious conical tent ever devised.

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