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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 ...
Iroquois music and dance are central components of traditional social gatherings, which take place in longhouses. [1] These gatherings are led by an individual who finds lead dancers and singers and introduces them to the audience, also providing dancing instructions. Instruments used include rattles, drums, flutes, and other percussive ...
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.
During this period, Champlain reported that the Algonquian peoples were fearful of the powerful Iroquois. The anthropologist Bruce G. Trigger believes the political dynamics were such that the Huron were unlikely to enter Iroquois territory to carry out an attack against the St. Lawrence people to the north. In the mid- to late-16th century ...
The longhouses had low, pitched roofs to efficiently disperse heat and featured a single door at each end. [9] Chiefs were responsible for assigning families to different sections of the longhouse. When the owner of a longhouse died, the house was either incinerated or passed on to a new family. [5]
For this reason, the League of the Iroquois historically met at the Iroquois government's capital at Onondaga, as the traditional chiefs do today. In the United States, the home of the Onondaga Nation is the Onondaga Reservation. Onondaga people also live near Brantford, Ontario on Six Nations territory. This reserve used to be Haudenosaunee ...
That's kind of the point here; there's a big difference betwween Algonkian longhouses and the various different kinds of coastal longhouses - aside from the use-distinctions which OMR describes some were big lean-tos (Old Man House), some were "gambrel"-roofed (Puget Sound only), and the shapes of even the timber-beamed ones are very different ...
The cultural design model attempts to incorporate understandings of differences in Indigenous Australian cultural norms into housing design. There a large body of knowledge on Indigenous housing in Australia that promotes the provision and design of housing that supports Indigenous residents’ socio-spatial needs, domiciliary behaviours ...