1892-93.] 



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four feet. Therein the family impedimenta were stowed away, and the 

 number of such depositories generally corresponded to that of the 

 cohabiting families. 



A totally different style of winter dwellings obtained among the 

 Tsi^Koh'tin and, through them, among the Lower Carriers. This was 

 the t/izK9n or semi-subterranean hut. It had been borrowed from the 

 two tribes' neighbours in the south and southeast, the Shushwap. Dr. F- 

 Boas has already given * the plan and description of one which is 

 probably of a representative character, while more lately Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson has furnished usf with an example of a different style observed 

 by himself among the Shushwap. None of these however tallies in point 

 of construction with the t/izKdu of the Lower Carriers such as it existed 

 among them some forty years ago. From information gathered from an 

 eye-witness, I am enabled to give the following account of those con- 

 structed at Fraser Lake and Stony-Creek. 



Fig. i8r. 



After ah excavation some three feet deep and about 20 feet in diameter 

 had been made, the butt ends of four large beams were made to rest a 



* Sixth Report on the N.W. Tribes of Canada, figs. 20 and 21, Leeds Meeting B.A. A.S. 1S90. 

 t Notes on the Shushwap People of B.C. ; Trans. R.S.C. Sect. II., fig. i, 1891. 



