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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.
Other longhouses were owned by just one man and his family, all living in the longhouse. [45] The potlatch house was a special type of longhouse that wealthier communities could afford. Although any longhouse could be used for potlatches, large and wealthy communities often elected to build special longhouses exclusively for potlatching.
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.
The Onondaga peoples place great emphasis on giving thanks, and this is reflected in their ceremonies. Ceremonial songs would be performed in the longhouse, and danced to in a counter-clockwise direction since this is the life-providing direction of Mother Earth, moon, and stars. [16]
The new, $22.7 million, LongHouse Visitor Center at the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is set to open Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. During the grand opening, admission for visitors will be ...
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 ...