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bear grass, is applied in regular, overlapping courses 
and is bound in place with strips of yucca leaves. 
The White Mountain Apache houses frequently have 
two long sloping sides meeting in a line above, like an 
ordinary gable roof. In recent years, corn stalks and 
the limbs of trees are frequently used for thatching 
with the additional protection of a strip of canvas. 
White Mountain Apache House. 
The Tonto Apache and the Yuma peoples build 
houses with a somewhat conical shape. The houses of 
the Havasupai have four important posts coming to a 
peak which furnish the foundation. Other smaller 
poles are leaned between these on which a thatch is 
applied. Earth is piled around the bottom and in winter 
nearly to the top in order to shed the rain. The door- 
way in winter faces the sunrise at that season, a little 
south of west. The houses of the Walapai are said to 
be less substantial than those of the Havasupai. 
