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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



lias to support the roof. Two heavy posts (F), about 9 inches in diam- 

 eter, are erected. Their heads are cut out and a beam of the same 

 diameter is hiid over them. At the joints it is cut out so as to lit into 

 the heads of the posts. On both sides of the door and in the corre- 

 sponding part of the rear side, about 3 feet distant from the central 

 line of the house, the supports (U) of the roof are erected. These form 

 the princij^al i^art of the framework, and are the first to be made when 

 the house is built. They stand about 3 feet from the wall, inside the 

 house. These uprights are about 2 feet in diameter and are generally 

 connected by a crosspiece (G) of the same diameter. On each side of 

 the crosspiece rests a heavy beam (H), which runs from the front to the 

 rear of the liouse. 



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ELEVATION AND SECTION OF KWAKIUTL HOUSE. 



Sometimes these beams are supported by additional uprights (U'), 

 which stand near the center of the house. The rafters (R) are laid 

 over these heavy timbers and the beams forming the tops of the sides. 

 They are about 8 inches in diameter. Light poles about 3 inches thick 

 are laid across the rafters. They rest against the vertical poles (C) in the 

 front aiul rear of the house. After the heavy framework which supports 

 the central part of the roof is erected, a bank about 3 feet in height is 

 raised all around the outlines of the house, its outer side coinciding 

 with the lines where the walls are to be erected. Long, heavy boards 

 4 or 5 inches thick are implanted lengthwise along the front of the 

 house, their upper edges standing 2i or 3 feet above the ground. Then 

 the earth forming the bank is stamped against them, and thus a 



