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together into it,” an allusion to its functions as the main support of the 
frame, as the two other timbers rest within its spreading fork. The 
two doorway timbers are also designated as north timber and south 
timber, according to the position each occupies, and they are sometimes 
called tetyégin binini/li, “those in place at the doorway passage.” A 
full nomenelature of hogan construction will be found in another 
section. 
When the fs¢i, or frame of five timbers, is completed the sides are 
filled with smaller timbers and limbs of pinon and cedar, the butt ends 
being set together as closely as possible on the ground and from 6 to 
12 inches outside of the excavated area previously described. The 
Fia. 232—Frame of a doorway 
timbers and branches are laid on as flat as possible, with the upper 
ends leaning on the apex or on each other. The intervening ledge 
thus formed in the interior is the bench previously mentioned, and 
aside from its convenience it adds materially to the strength of the 
structure. 
While the sides are being inclosed by some of the workers a door- 
frame is constructed by others. This consists simply of two straight 
poles with forked tops driven into the ground at the base of and close 
inside of the doorway timbers, as shown in figure 252, When in 
place these poles are about 4 feet high, set upright, with a straight 
stick resting in the forks, as shown clearly in plate LXxxtv. Another 
