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Of the Timucua granaries there seems to be but a single account, 



by Le Moyne : 



There are in that region a great many islands, producing abundance of various 

 kinds of fruits, which they gather twice a year, and carry home in canoes, and 

 store up in roomy low granaries built of stones and earth, and roofed thickly 

 with palm-branches and a kind of soft earth fit for the purpose. These granaries 

 are usually erected near some mountain, or on the bank of some river, so as to 

 be out of the sun's rays, in order that the contents may keep better. Here they 

 also store up any other provisions which they may wish to preserve, and the 

 remainder of their stores ; and they go and get them as need may require, without 

 any apprehensions of being defrauded. [PI. 56.] (Le Moyne, 1875, p. 9 (illus.) ; 

 Swanton, 1922, p. 361.) 



By "mountain," forest or grove is probably intended, and by "stone" 

 that natural cement, tapia or "tabby" into which mud made from limy 

 soil naturally sets. Thus in Florida the earth-covered houses "were 

 used as granaries and the habitations for human beings were con- 

 structed in another manner, as elsewhere described. 



A type of granary more like that of the northern Indians is, how- 

 ever, rather clearl}^ implied by Bishop Calderon (1936, p. 13) in 

 stating that the Timucua granary was supported by 12 beams. 



In Virginia there appears again a combination of the lounging 



pavilion and storehouse, at least if we may trust Strachey, who seems 



to have left the sole specific description of this building: 



By their bowses they have sometymes a scsena, or high stage, raised like a 

 scaffold, of small spelts, reedes, or dried osiers, covered with matts, which both 

 gives a shadowe and is a shelter, and serves for such a covered place where men 

 used in old tyme to sitt and talke for recreation or pleasure, which they call 

 praestega, and where, on a loft of hurdells, they laye forth their corne and flsh 

 to dry. They eate, sleepe, and dresse theire meate all under one roofe, and in 

 one chamber, as it were. (Strachey, 1849, p. 71.) 



All of these eastern storehouses seem to have been square or at least 

 rectangular, though we cannot be certain in all cases. The Eno store- 

 house, however, may have been round, for Lederer compares it to an 

 oven. This tribe devoted itself considerably to trade and raised a 

 large amount of corn to barter with other tribes ; therefore the gran- 

 ary was of exceptional importance among them. Lederer says: "To 

 each house belongs a little hovel made like an oven, where they lay 

 up their corn and mast, and keep it dry" (Alvord, 1912, p. 157). 



If this were actually round, it would seem to link the Eno in this 

 particular with the Mississippi tribes. To be sure, the illustration ac- 

 companying Le Moyne's description of the Florida storehouse shows 

 a round building, but we cannot trust this too far as these illustrations 

 are faulty in many other particulars (see above). 



The granaries of the Tunica were perhaps square. Gravier says 

 that they were "made like dovecotes, built on four large posts, 15 or 16 

 feet high, well put together and well polished, so that the mice can- 



