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A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874). The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America also built a form of longhouse. Theirs were built with logs or split-log frame ...
The Germanic cattle-farmer longhouses emerged along the southwestern North Sea coast in the third or fourth century BCE and may be the ancestors of several medieval house types such as the Scandinavian langhus; the English, [2] Welsh, and Scottish longhouse variants; and the German and Dutch Low German house. The longhouse is a traditional form ...
Wetu recreation at Fruitlands Museum. A wetu is a domed hut, used by some north-eastern Native American tribes such as the Wampanoag. [1] They provided shelter, sometimes seasonal or temporary, for families near the wooded coast for hunting and fishing.
Apache wickiup, by Edward S. Curtis, 1903 Apache wickiup. A wigwam, wickiup, wetu (), or wiigiwaam (Ojibwe, in syllabics: ᐧᐄᑭᐧᐋᒻ) [1] is a semi-permanent domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American tribes and First Nations people and still used for ceremonial events.
A reconstructed Viking Age longhouse (28.5 metres long) in Denmark.. Among the early Germanic peoples, a mead hall or feasting hall was a large building with a single room intended to receive guests and serve as a center of community social life.
Traditionally, the Makah lived in villages consisting of large longhouses made from western red cedar. These longhouses had cedar-plank walls which could be tilted or removed to provide ventilation or light. The cedar tree was of great value to Makah, who also used its bark to make water-resistant clothing and hats. Cedar roots were used in ...
Twenty or thirty people could have lived in each house, with villages composed typically of five to eight houses. Exceptionally, nearly 30 longhouses in a fortified settlement (dating to 4300 BC, i.e., Late Linear Pottery culture) were revealed by excavations at Oslonki in Poland. [6] [7]
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