Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 291. 0*-Plan of cavate lodges, group D At the southern end of the room there is a cubby-hole about a foot indiameter, excavated at the floor level. At the eastern end of the roomthere is a passageway about 2k feet long leading into a smaller roughlycircular room, measuring 7i feet in its longest diameter, and this in. ] INTERIOR OF CAVATE LODGES. 227 turn is connected with another almost circular room of the same floors of all three of these rooms are on the same level, but the
Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . Fig. 291. 0*-Plan of cavate lodges, group D At the southern end of the room there is a cubby-hole about a foot indiameter, excavated at the floor level. At the eastern end of the roomthere is a passageway about 2k feet long leading into a smaller roughlycircular room, measuring 7i feet in its longest diameter, and this in. ] INTERIOR OF CAVATE LODGES. 227 turn is connected with another almost circular room of the same floors of all three of these rooms are on the same level, but theroofs of the two smaller rooms are a foot lower than that of theentrance room. At the northern end of the entrance room there is apassageway 3 feet long aud 2i feet wide leading into the principalroom of the set. This passageway at its southern end has a frameddoorway of the type illustrated later. The main room is roughly circular in form, measuring 16 feet in itsnorth and south diameter and 15 feet from east to west. The roof isabout 7 feet above the floor. Figure 292 shows a section from north-west to southwest (a, b, figure 291) through the small connected room
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