These buildings were the receptacles of dried fish for the winter use of dogs and their owners.
The elevation of the floor serves to protect the contents from dogs and wild animals.

I was told that no locks were used and that theft was a crime unknown.
The dwellings were generally divided into two apartments; one a sort of ante room and receptacle of house-keeping goods, and the other the place of residence.

Pots, kettles, knives, and wooden pans were the principal articles of household use I discovered.

At the storehouses there were several fish-baskets of birch or willow twigs.

A Gilyak gentleman does not permit fire carried into or out of his house, not even in a pipe.