Native Villages And Village Sites East of the Mississippi
Native Villages And Village Sites East of the Mississippi
David I David Ives Bushnell
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These they were to occupy during their stay. Their Indian attendants were given adjoining apartments. Fortunately an mteresting description of the structure, together with a plan (fig. 3), was preserved in the narrative of the journey (Bartram, J. , (1), pp. 40-41): ''This cabm is about 80 feet long, and 17 broad, the common passage 6 feet wide; and the apartments on each side 5 feet, raised a foot above the passage by a long saplmg hewed square, and fitted with joists thatgo fromit to the back... of the house; on these joists they lay large pieces of bark, and on extraordinary occasions spread matts made of rushes, this favour we had ; on these floors they set or lye down every one as he wiU, the apartments are divided from each other by boards or bark, 6 or 7 feet long, from the lower floor to the upper, on Fig. 2. — Bark house. Method of construction of the Iroquois long house. (From Handbook of A merican Indians . ) various sites BUSHNELL] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES 53 which they put their lomber, when they have eaten their homony, as they set m each apartment l)cfore the fire, they can put the bowl over head, having not above 5 foot to reach; they set on the floor sometimes at each end, but mostly at one: they have a shed to put their wood into in the winter, or ill the summer to set to converse or play, that has a door to the south; all the side and roof of tli§ cabin is made of bark, bound fast to poles set in the ground, and bent round on the top, or set aflatt, for the roof as we set our rafters; over each fire place they leave a hole to let out the smoak, which in ramy weather they cover with a piece of bark.
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