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known to the early whites as town houses, and their priests as medi- 
cine men or jugglers. These names are somewhat misleading. 
The Natchez and many other tribes of the South used these 
buildings solely as temples, with priestly attendants and solemn, 
though barbaric, rites. 
The building in house circle No. 1 is referred to as a temple because 
the preponderance of evidence indicates it was used solely as a temple 
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A diagram of this temple is shown in Figure 123. Its eastern wall, 
1, 6, 5, appears to have been straight. Its northern, southern, and 
western walls were somewhat curved. It measured: 1 to 5, 37 feet; 
2 to 4, 46 feet; 3 to 6, 33 feet. 
This building appeared to have had walls consisting of upright 
posts from 4 to 6 inches in diameter, set from 2 to 3 feet apart. In 
and out between these posts a wattling of cane stems, with leaves 
still attached, had been interwoven. This rough wattled wall was 
then plastered, within and without, with a clay mortar which was 
