Building a Home - when there are no trees

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The Inuits have it down to a science.

 
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Other native people do similar things with wooden poles they carry to make teepees and yurts on plains without trees with the advantage that they don't melt if it gets too warm.

But the masonry of the Inuit work is quite impressive.