Title:
Homes of the Eastern Algonkian Indians
Date:
ND
Scope & Content:
Typewritten paper describing the homes of the Eastern Algonkian Indians.
The typical dome–shaped wigwam is described as " a long half ovall; nine or tenne foot high in the middle top, where.. the light is admitted by a window, halfe a square, which window is also the chimney." The houses were made with long yong sapling trees bended and both ends stucke into the ground;.. and covered down to the ground with thicke and well wrought matts, and the doore was not over a yard high, made of a matt to open....
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The typical dome–shaped wigwam is described as " a long half ovall; nine or tenne foot high in the middle top, where.. the light is admitted by a window, halfe a square, which window is also the chimney." The houses were made with long yong sapling trees bended and both ends stucke into the ground;.. and covered down to the ground with thicke and well wrought matts, and the doore was not over a yard high, made of a matt to open....
1 page
Object ID:
DOC.ND01981
Object Name:
Paper
Collection:
Dwellings –Sweat Lodges
Search Terms:
Algonkian
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