Chum (tent)

The Chum, also Spitzjurte, is a traditional residential dwelling of the Khanty, Mansi and Nenets in the West Siberian Plain and other peoples of Siberia. It consists of a wooden structure - mostly Siberian stone pine or birch - and, originally covered with animal skins or fabrics with birch bark. Thus, it is similar to the tipi or yurt.

As the chanting originally lived as nomads, they erected at different summer and winter storage places Chum - scaffolds that remained standing on the spot, while the skins were taken on the migrations.

Sources and Literature

• Soy Sokolova: The country Jugorien. Progress Publishers Moscow and F. A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig 1982 ( original Зоя П Соколова. Страна Югория, Издательство Мысль, Москва 1976)
• German teaching material and cultural Kirov