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 41
d against the stringers. Slabs of woodwere then set in the spaces between the braces, at the sameinclination, and resting against the stringers, so as, whencomplete, to surround the lodge with a wooden wall.Four round posts were set in the ground near the centre ofthe floor in the angles of a… … Fig. 6. CROSS SECTION OF HOUSE. Poles three or four inches in diameter were laid as raftersfrom the external wall to the string pieces resting on thecentral posts, and near enough together to give the neces-sary strength to bear the earth-covering placed upon theroof. These poles were first covered…
Indians · Architecture, Domestic
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