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side, so small as not to be entered except by crawling 
on the hands and knees. Around the sides of the 
interior are wide shelves, formed of poles and rushes 
resting on forked posts, which serve for beds. 
Summer huts of California Indians, 
In the view of the interior of one of their dwell- 
ings is seen a number of decoy ducks which they use 
to good advantage. Although the California tribes 
exhibit much skill in fishing and in trapping game, 
and the erection of their dwellings, they show little in- 
genuity in the arts of design. The accompanying rude 
figure in wood, of a woman and child, which was 
