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VILLAGE OF CROW-FLIES-HIGH 
According to Adici Stevenson 
Ficure 24.—Village of Crow-Flies-High according to a Hidatsa occupant, and 
informant, Adlai Stevenson, or Bear-In-The-Water. 
and here corn and meat were dried for winter use. Often people 
slept up there if the cabin was crowded with visitors. 
The earthlodge, or “dance hall” did not have a flat roof, nor did 
it have a covered doorway. According to Wilson’s (1934, p. 364) 
classification it was a “simple type” structure.© The doorway was 
flush with the side of the lodge without additional construction work 
to cover a passageway. Typically, a bull-boat frame was inverted 
and placed on the top of the lodge to regulate the flow of air and 
smoke from a large basin-type fire hearth in the center of the lodge. 
Everyone in the community united in its construction, and the as- 
signment of tasks was not made on the basis of clan or moiety mem- 
bership. It was said that the Grass Dance Society members super- 
vised. Specifically mentioned in the society were its officials, includ- 
ing drum owners, feather-tail owners who had special whips in their 
possession, and four men with drumsticks. Given a sheet of paper 
and a pencil, Adlai Stevenson (or Bear-In-The-Water) made a sketch 
of the earthlodge which is reproduced here with retouching for clarity. 
Gardens were located in Missouri River bottomlands about 1 mile 
north of the village and in certain sections along both sides of Ante- 
® According to Wilson this type of earthlodge was relatively easy to make and by 1909 
was the most common one on the Fort Berthold reservation. 
597967—63——_17 
