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Ganondagan, site of a major 17th-century Seneca village, has a reconstructed Seneca longhouse and a small visitors center. The original town site covered nine acres, with dwellings and stores, fields, and areas for livestock. This area was the location of nearly 150 longhouses, as well as the burial grounds of the people.
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. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.
The Mohawk village site has been marked with stakes to show the outlines of the 12 longhouses and stockade that existed there 300 years ago. The entire site is open to the public. People may walk around the former village and see the foundations of the Caughnawaga longhouses and the layout. The site is on a hill.
Longhouses varied in size from 15 to 150 feet long and 15 to 25 feet in breadth. [202] Longhouses were usually built of layers of elm bark on a frame of rafters and standing logs raised upright. [202] In 1653, Dutch official and landowner Adriaen van der Donck described a Mohawk longhouse in his Description of New Netherland:
Kabushiki-gaisha Rosso was a Japanese scale model manufacturer specializing in plastic scale kits and pre-assembled model cars. Rosso only made models in 1992 – for approximately one year. Les Rouliers – French Matchbox-sized cars in metal. Some plastic cars also [81] RyM – Plastic toys from Argentina [82]
A survey of nearly 600 kit car owners in the US, the UK and Germany, carried out by Dr. Ingo Stüben, showed that typically 100–1,500 hours are required to build a kit car, depending upon the model and the completeness of the kit. [5] As the complexity of the kits offered continues to increase, build times have increased.
Kit car manufacturers (2 C, 119 P) L. Lotus Seven replicas (36 P) Pages in category "Kit cars" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Many Seneca and other Iroquois migrated into Canada during and after the Revolutionary War, where the Crown gave them land in compensation for what was lost in their traditional territories. Some 10,000 to 25,000 Seneca are citizens of Six Nations Reserve and reside on the Grand River Territory, the major Iroquois reserve, near Brantford, Ontario.