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Basically Features 10 and 15 seem to be closely related in floor plan, 
although Feature 15 was smaller and lacked both the number of post- 
molds present in Feature 10 and the zone of small molds surrounding 
it. Each had a fireplace in the same position, and with each of these 
a number of small postmolds were closely associated. Hartle, who 
directed the excavations here, believed these features to represent plat- 
forms erected for drying meat, corn, pumpkins, ete., of the type de- 
scribed by Wilson for the Hidatsa (Wilson, 1917, pp. 98-104). If 
such was their purpose they were far less carefully constructed than 
those described by that student. It seems equally possible that they 
represent arbors or ramadas. 
Pictures taken by Morrow at Like-a-Fishhook Village about 1870 
show that arbors and drying platforms were both common at that 
time. Arbors were still to be seen on the Fort Berthold Reservation 
during the period of our work there, sometimes with one or more sides 
enclosed by long, untrimmed willow poles leaning against the roof 
edge to form a shade and windbreak. It must be remembered also, 
that Feature 10 is said to have served as a stable for horses. A make- 
shift structure made by enclosing a frame on all four sides with willows 
thrust into the ground and woven together would result in a floor plan 
lke that of Feature 10. If, however, Feature 10 was used for stabling 
horses, one would expect the fireplace to have been destroyed by their 
trampling, although its position in the corner and the three posts 
planted closely about it might have served to protect it to some extent. 
If Features 10 and 15 represent arbors or drying platforms, the 
presence of the low earthworks that outlined them is hard to explain. 
Although the mounds were somewhat lower than those marking the 
lodge sites, they were distinct and can hardly be accounted for except 
by the supposition that earth banked the original structures. It seems 
doubtful that windblown soil would have been deposited about walls 
in such quantities as to form these embankments. 
One other possibility remains to be mentioned in attempting to ac- 
count for these features. As has been previously mentioned, Latta 
noted the presence of a few log cabins in the village in June 1862. 
Not the slightest evidence of the former presence of log cabins was 
recognized by Stout in 1908, nor by the 1951 party, although the Mis- 
souri Basin Project reconnaissance party noted traces of the former 
presence of mud-chinked and plastered cabins at a number of places 
on the reservation. 
In 1902 Olin D. Wheeler visited Fort Berthold preparatory to 
writing an account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. He was ac- 
companied on this trip by the pioneer Miles City photographer, L.A. 
Huffman. At this time Huffman twice photographed “Leggins, a 
Mandan Indian.” One of these pictures was published by Wheeler 
(1904, vol. 1, p. 241), the other more recently (Brown and Felton, 
