Also topek. [Eskimo of Alaska.] A hut or tent of skins used by Eskimo as a summer residence.
1875. Boston Globe, 11 May, 1/2. The trip will embrace all points of special interest on the coast [of Labrador] … the tupiks or seal skin houses of the Esquimaux.
1898. Geogr. Jrnl., Nov., 499. These people [Eskimo], who live in tupiks (tents or huts of skin) in summer, and in igloos, partly excavated, partly stone-built dwellings, in winter.
1900. Scribner’s Mag., Sept., 297/2. There were three or four tupiks, or sealskin tents, pitched upon the turf at the foot of the talus.
