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passed the winter in rectangular or A-sha]XKl cabins covered with 
brush and snowA West of the Rockies we meet with more sub- 
stantial dwellings. The Tahltan, Sekani, and some bands of the 
Carrier, all of whom were immigrants from the Mackenzie 
basin, retained the skin and bough shelters of their earlier home, or 
constructed crude, gable-roofed huts sheathed with birch-bark; but 
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Typical tipis of the plains, formerly of buffalo-hide, now of cloth. 
(Photo hi/ Harlan I. Smith.) 
other Carrier bands and the interior Salish tribes to the southward 
built strong log cabins, so completely underground that they could 
be entered only by ladders leading down through the rectangular 
smoke-holes. 
The adjoining plan- explains the construction of these under- 
ground cabins better than a long description. They accommodated 
1 Wentzcl and Keith in Masson; Op. cit., i, 91), ii, 121. The Slave.s rarely or never visited the 
Barren Grounds to hunt caribou, and seldom secured enough skins to provide both clothing and coverings 
for their tents, 
2 See a/so the illustration on p. 354, 
