An igloo, also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.
Community of igluit (Illustration from Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865)
Interior of an igloo (early 1900s)
A nearly complete, medium-sized igloo, with excavation under the door and the exterior unfinished
Interior of an igloo, facing the passageway leading to the entrance
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America. The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat, and Yupik, and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska. The term culture of the Inuit, therefore, refers primarily to these areas; however, parallels to other Eskimo groups can also be drawn.
Qulliq – lit to celebrate the creation of Nunavut Territory of Canada on April 1, 1999
Tent ring from the Thule culture on the Meliadine River, near Rankin Inlet, Canada
Inuit woman, Nome, 1907
Hunting place of the Saqqaq culture on Disko Bay, Greenland, photo by Jan Kronsell