One or multiple rows of storehouses on pillars (Sámi word: "áitti") were commonly found on farms and residential premises in Kautokeino. The storehouses on pillars were often made of timber or planks using the cogging joint method, and the roof was covered with sod or wood. These structures were used as a place to store food and clothing. Storehouses were also used by the nomadic Sámi who were friends of the permanent residents. Here in the storehouses, the reindeer herding nomadic Sámi stored unnecessary clothes and equipment when they moved to the coast in the springtime.