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In Hidatsa culture, men only raised the large logs; the rest of the work was done by women. Therefore, a lodge was considered to be owned by the woman who built it. A vestibule of exposed logs marked the entrance and provided an entryway; these vestibules were often a minimum of 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) in length (determined by the size of the lodge and resulting outer-clay thickness).
Interior of the Earth Lodge. At the Knife River Indian Villages National Historical Site there are the visible remains of earth-lodge dwellings, cache pits, and travois trails. The remains of the earth-lodge dwellings can be seen as large circular depressions in the ground. These dwellings were as large as 40 feet in diameter and 14 feet high.
The Big Hidatsa site, occupied between ca. 1740 and 1850, is an earthlodge located in the 1,758 acre Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota, United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This National Historic Site was established in 1974 “to focus on the cultures and lifestyles of the Plains Indians”.
The medicine lodge was usually detectable by its size and flat façade, [19] but a visitor described the one in Like-a-Fishhook Village as being "round". [20] The Hidatsa would from time to time rent the lodge for ceremonies of their own. [21] The new village consisted of roughly 70 earth lodges, [22] with the homes of leading men facing the ...
The Hagen Site, also designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 24DW1, is an archaeological site near Glendive in Dawson County, Montana.The site, excavated in the 1930s, is theorized to represent a rare instance of a settlement from early in the period in which the Crow and Hidatsa Native American tribes separated from one another.
Hidatsa performing dog dance in regalia by Karl Bodmer. In his right hand, he holds a rattle of pronghorn hoofs. A bone flute is hanging in a string around his neck. Prior to the epidemic of 1782, they had few enemies. The Hidatsa hunted upstream from the earthlodge villages at and below the Knife River.
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Mandan earth lodge, photographed by Edward S. Curtis, circa 1908 Snow scene of a modern reconstructed earth lodge at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota. The Mandan were known for their distinctive, large, circular earthen lodges, in which more than one family lived.