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sun; some are then plastered over with mud. An 
opening for a door is left, about three feet high, to 
creep in at. These habitations vary in height from 
five to seven feet; so that in many of them one cannot 
stand erect. In fact they are chiefly used to sit and 
sleep in. : In diameter they are from fifteen to twenty- 
five feet. In the most westerly village of the Coco- 
Maricopas, from which the annexed sketch was taken, 
the wigwams are wholly plastered with mud. Their 
cooking is done out of doors, where the greater por- 
tion of their time is passed, beneath a kind of shed or 
bower attached to the wigwams This is open on all 
sides, and merely protected from the sun overhead. 
Beneath these bowers the people are generally seen 
engaged in their household occupations, only resorung 
to their better protected abodes in cool or rainy 
weather. The accompanying sketch shows the mar 
ner of erecting these wigwams. . 
Mode of constructing Wigwams. 
Besides the dwelling-places, each family is provided 
with a store-house or granary. These are built ke 
the Mexican jakals, i. e., with stakes placed close 
together and about eight or nine feet high. They ate 
better structures than the dwellings, and are probably 
made more open, in order to give a free circulation © 
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