Title:
Primitive North American habitations
Date:
ND
Scope & Content:
Typewritten paper classifying the primiative habitations of North American Indians.
Houses with a permanent framework of poles, covered with bark, thatch, mat or other light material. This group includes the Long–house of the Iroquois, the elongate houses with bowed roof of the Virginia and other coastal tribes. The Palmetto houses of the Louisiana tribes. The conical or tipi like structure seems to follow the outlines of the caribou and bison hunting areas and is everywhere definitely associated with a nomadic hunting life...
2 pages
Houses with a permanent framework of poles, covered with bark, thatch, mat or other light material. This group includes the Long–house of the Iroquois, the elongate houses with bowed roof of the Virginia and other coastal tribes. The Palmetto houses of the Louisiana tribes. The conical or tipi like structure seems to follow the outlines of the caribou and bison hunting areas and is everywhere definitely associated with a nomadic hunting life...
2 pages
Object ID:
DOC.ND01970
Object Name:
Paper
Collection:
Dwellings –Sweat Lodges
Search Terms:
house
dwelling
wigwam
teepee
dwelling
wigwam
teepee