This model, made by an Okak man, illustrates the wooden framework of a typical Inuit house, without the usual sod covering. The hip roof is made up of tapered poles, placed with their tips along a central ridge. There are two windows on the front slope of the roof; a section of the rear slope has been cut away for viewing the interior of the model. The entrance porch, which was sometimes used as a kitchen, has a square hole in the roof to vent smoke from an open stone fireplace. A stove-pipe hole in the main roof indicates the presence of a wood stove, an innovation used to supplement the heat from traditional stone lamps.
Courtesy: Moravian Church, Konigsfeld, Federal Republic of Germany
