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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 Alountaiii Apaclic House. 



The houses of the Pima have a frame in the center 

 consisting of four posts set in the ground at the corners 

 of a square ten to twelve feet apart. The posts are 

 forked at the top and support two logs on which many 

 smaller poles rest. Around this framework a dome- 

 shaped light frame is constructed similar to that 

 employed by the Apache. The house is thatched with 

 arrowbush brush and the roof is generally covered with 



