POWHATAN. 



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and one ou the in8i<le, l)etween which the niattiugs of caues or willows wore secured, 

 as the houses at Pomeiock and Secotan are ribbed externally at intervals of about 

 eight feet, showing four, five, and six sectious. 



As the writer last inentiouod made a cai'sful study of all tlie evidence 

 relating to the Iroquois liouses, his eonelusion in regard to their size, 

 form, and mode of coustruction is given rather thau extracts from the 

 original authorities: 



Tlie " hmghonse" of the Iroquois • * » was from fifty to ciglity and sometimes 

 one hundred feet long. It consisted of a strong frame of ttpright poles set in the 



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J^id tMsJtale &Lji^/ifm u/Aen Cqpt:SmA 

 -unzs delizeered to /im ^ri/oner 

 1G07 



Fi(;.341. — Inlerior of lioiiso of Vir^iinia Tndi.Tiis. From Smith's Uistory, « 



ground, which were strengthened with horizontal poles attached with withes, and 

 surmonnti'd with a triangular, and in some cases with a round roof. It was covered 

 over both sides and roof with large strips of (dm bark tied to the frame with strings 

 or splints. An external frame of ]>oles for the sides and of rafters for the roof wore 

 then adjusted to hold the bark shingles between them, the two frames being tied 

 together. The interior of the house was comparted at intervals of six or eight feet, 

 leaving each chamber entirely open like a. stall ui>on the passageway whicli jiassed 

 through the center of the house from end to end. At each end was a doorway cov- 

 ered with susi>endcd skins. 



