. Bulletin. Ethnology. bushnell] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES 65 in the foreground, near a fire in the open. Others are gathered be- neath the shelter on the left, while to the right of the door of the far cabin a woman is busily engaged with mortar and pestle, probably preparing kombo ashish. The use of the large carrying basket, the Icishe of the Choctaw, is clearly indicated, and the group in the fore- ground may be engaged in preparing dyes and the materials for bas- ket making, with strips of cane scattered on the ground. The open shelter was probably in use throughout the South and
. Bulletin. Ethnology. bushnell] NATIVE VILLAGES AND VILLAGE SITES 65 in the foreground, near a fire in the open. Others are gathered be- neath the shelter on the left, while to the right of the door of the far cabin a woman is busily engaged with mortar and pestle, probably preparing kombo ashish. The use of the large carrying basket, the Icishe of the Choctaw, is clearly indicated, and the group in the fore- ground may be engaged in preparing dyes and the materials for bas- ket making, with strips of cane scattered on the ground. The open shelter was probably in use throughout the South and the one which stood at Bonfouca in 1846 was undoubtedly typical of all. It closely. Fig. 5.—Choctaw house of palmetto thatch. resembled the houses of the Seminole as described on another page. This may have been the "summer house," so often mentioned. Within the past few years traces of a settlement, or camp site, have been encountered on a slight ridge, a hundred yards or more from the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, about 12 miles northeast of New Orleans. Many bits of pottery are found mingled with the shells and sand, and human remains have been discovered. This may have been a landing place on the shore of the lake, where parties coming from the opposite side would encamp, or those returning would await favorable weather before attempting to cross. In the year 1771 it was said the buildings of the Choctaw were "exactly similar to those of the ; (Romans, (1), p. 83.) 108851°—19 5. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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