Houses and House-life of the American Aborigines, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 281 páginas The following work substantially formed the Fifth Part of the original manuscript of "Ancient Society," under the title "Growth of the Idea of House Architecture." preface. |
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adobe mortar altepetlalli American aborigines ancient Animas River Aztecs calpulli Central America Chaco Chaco Cañon Chiapas chiefs Cibola communism in living confederacy constructed council council of chiefs court cultivated dinner doorways edifices embankments ESTUFA ESTUFA ESTUFA families federacy feet high feet long feet wide five floor four gens gentes gentile ground ground-plan Herrera hundred feet Indian tribes inhabitants Iroquois joint-tenement houses ladders land large households lintels lodge long-houses main building maize Mandan masonry ment Mexicans Mexico Middle Status miles Moki Montezuma MORGAN Mound-Builders occupied Ojibwa Onondaga Palenque period persons phratry poles present principle probably Pueblo Bonito Pueblo Indians Pueblo Pintado remains remarks roof rooms row of apartments ruins sachems San Juan side society Spaniards Spanish Status of barbarism stone pueblos stories high structures Taos terrace twenty usages Uxmal valley Village Indians walls wing Yucatan Zuñi
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Página 109 - ... a single house, because the whole is under one roof ; otherwise it would seem more like a range of buildings, as it is divided into seven distinct apartments, each thirty feet square, by means of broad boards set on end from the floor to the roof.
Página 65 - ... yet at the top of the house there is a hole made for the smoke to go into right over the fire. Against the fire they lie on little hurdles of Reeds covered with a mat, borne from the ground a foot and more by a bundle of wood.
Página 116 - Their house was low and long, about sixty feet long and fourteen or fifteen feet wide. The bottom was earth, the sides and roof were made of reed and the bark of* chestnut trees ; the posts, or columns, were limbs of trees stuck in the ground, and all fastened together.
Página 50 - They now set before them a small piece of buffalo meat, some dried salmon, berries, and several kinds of roots. Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
Página 122 - ... feet, raised a foot above the passage by a long sapling, hewed square, and fitted with joists that go from it to the back of the house; on these joists they lay large pieces of bark, and on extraordinary occasions spread...
Página 156 - ... with alternate beds of large and small stones, the regularity of the combination producing a very pleasing effect. The ceiling of this room is also more tasteful than any we have seen — the transverse beams being smaller and more numerous. and the longitudinal pieces which rest upon them only about an inch in diameter, and beautifully regular.
Página 64 - The stores were in common, but woe to the luckless husband or lover who was too shiftless to do his share of the providing. No matter how many children or whatever goods he might have in the house, he might at any time be ordered to pick up his blanket and budge...
Página 239 - The meals were served by three or four hundred youths, who brought in an infinite number of dishes; indeed, whenever he dined or supped the table was loaded with every kind of flesh, fish, fruits and vegetables that the country produced. As the climate is cold, they put a chafing-dish with live coals under every plate and dish, to keep them warm. The meals were served in a large hall in which Montezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept...
Página 156 - ... a combination of science and art which can only be referred to a higher stage of civilization and refinement than is discoverable in the works of Mexicans or Pueblos of the present day. Indeed, so beautifully diminutive and true are the details of the structure as to cause it, at a little distance, to have all the appearance of a magnificent piece of mosaic work.
Página 116 - Indian alone, according as he is hungry, at all hours, morning, noon and night. By each fire are the cooking utensils, consisting of a pot, a bowl, or calabash, and a spoon also made of a calabash. These are all that relate to cooking. They lie upon mats with their feet towards the fire, on each side of it. They do not sit much upon any thing raised up, but, for the most part, sit on the ground or squat on their ankles.