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Ficure 12.—Floor plan of Feature 15, Star Village site. 
1955, p. 18). In each picture the Indian stands in the doorway of a 
low, fiat-roofed hut which, while a far cry from the traditional earth- 
lodge, still bears a generic resemblance to one. A horizontal stringer 
forms the top of the doorway at about the height of the man immedi- 
ately in front of it. This rather light stringer supports the ends of 
poles laid horizontally, and on these brush has been placed and cov- 
ered with a thin layer of earth. Against the outside of the stringer 
light poles have been leaned in a vertical or slightly inclined position. 
These support a Jayer of brush which in turn is scantily covered with 
earth. Not too many details of the structure are shown in the photo- 
graphs, but such a structure would be more likely to leave remains 
of the type represented by Features 10 and 15 than would a drying 
rack of the type shown by Wilson, and I am inclined to believe that 
habitations of this type are represented by the excavated remains. 
Perhaps the log cabins of Agent Latta, “put up in good style, with 
fireplaces and chimneys,” were actually two or three makeshift pole 
and brush or wattle and daub huts, with earth heaped up about them. 
The excavated features had fireplaces present in one corner. Mud and 
stick chimneys propped and steadied with small poles would explain 
the small postmolds about the fireplaces and explain, too, their near- 
