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 42
nd the fire-pit, which was the gathering place of theinmates of the lodge. The interior was finished with a hard, smooth, earthen floor. Such a lodge would accom-modate five or six families, numbering in all thirty or forty-persons. It was a communal house, in accordance withthe usages and customs… … Fig. 7. MANDAN HOUSE. AO ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. sons of the same gens or clan. Icounted forty-eight houses whichwould average forty feet in di-ameter, all constructed on thismodel, besides several rectangu-lar houses of hewn logs, evident-ly of later erection. These houses, of which a…
Indians · Architecture, Domestic
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