The World's Peoples: a Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters, Beliefs, Traditions ...
The World's Peoples: a Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters, Beliefs, Traditions ...
A H Augustus Henry Keane
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The Thlinkits, Haidas and others built substantial rectangular abodes with sides and ends formed of planks and the fronts elabo- rately carved and painted with symbolic figures. Directly in front of the house a totem pole is placed, and near by a memorial pole. These houses are sometimes 100 by 40 feet in the Vancouver and Salish (Flathead) districts, and are occupied by several families. The most primitive abodes were those of the Pai-utes and the Cocopas, consisting simply of brush shelters f...or summer, and for winter a framework of poles bent together at the top and covered with brush, bark, and earth. The circular wigwam, with sides of bark or mats, built over a shallow excavation in the soil, and with earth thrown against the base, appears to have been the usual form in the Ohio valley and neighbouring Mississippi districts in pre- historic and early historic times. Another form in Arkansas before American (Amerind) pi* Red Division ^43 the discovery wag a rectangular structure with two rooms in froi^t and one in the rear ; the walls were of upright posts thickly plastered with clay on a sort of wattle.
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