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Canadian anthropologist Wilson Duff quotes Simon Fraser, who (upon observation of the Coast Salish homes on the banks of the now-named Fraser River) wrote in his 1800 journal; "as an excellent house 46 × 32 and constructed like American frame houses; the planks are three to 4 inches thick, each plank overlapping the adjoining one a couple of inches; the post, which is very strong and crudely ...
Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people Interior of a longhouse with Chief Powhatan (detail of John Smith map, 1612). Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America.
Taos Pueblo from Taos, New Mexico. Pueblo architecture is a lasting aspect of Indigenous architecture in the American Southwest.The original Pueblo style was based on the Anasazi people, [1] who began building square cliff dwellings around 1150 CE, featuring subterranean chambers and circular ceremonial rooms.
Plank-framed barns [22] are different than a plank-framed house. Plank framed barns developed in the American Mid-West, such as the patente in 1876 (#185,690) by William Morris and Joseph Slanser of La Rue, Ohio, shows (several other patents followed). Sometimes they were also called a joist frame, rib frame and trussed frame barns.
The longhouse, pit house and plank house were diverse responses to the need for more permanent building forms. Tipi outside the Royal Military College of Canada. The semi-nomadic peoples of the Maritimes, Quebec, and Northern Ontario, such as the Mi'kmaq, Cree, and Algonquin generally lived in wigwams '. The wood-framed structures, covered with ...
Mother and children at a camp on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, 1949 An Indian camp with a sleep chickee, cooking chickee, and eating chickee. Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides.
Plans for 'O Rew, originally one of dozens of villages on ancestral lands, include traditional redwood plank houses, a sweat house and a visitor and cultural center. [35] [33] The center will be displaying sacred artefacts from deerskins to baskets, as well as serving as a hub for the Yurok to carry out their traditions. [34]
Great houses – Generally built on flat plains throughout the Southwest, the great house-style Pueblo dwelling sat independent of cliffs. Pit houses – Most of the populations of the Southwest lived in pit houses, carefully dug rectangular or circular depressions in the earth with wattle and daub adobe walls supported by log sized corner posts.