A study of the houses of the American aborigines; with suggestions for the exploration of the ruins in New Mexico, Arizona, the valley of the San Juan, and in Yucatan and Central America, under the auspices of the Archæological institute (1880)
Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 · Cambridge [Mass.] · leaf 39
elaboratehouse constructed by any of the northern tribes. There issome reason, growing out of their peculiar religious system,for the conjecture that the Minnitares are descendants ofthe Mound Builders, from whom they derived the practiceof cord-swinging and of dragging the buffalo-skull, andother… … Fig. 4. MANDAN VILLAGE PLOT. In 1862 I saw the remains of the old Mandan village,shortly after its abandonment by the Arickarees, its lastoccupants. The houses, nearly all of which were of thesame model, were falling into decay, but some of themwere still perfect, and the plan of their structure…
Indians · Architecture, Domestic
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