. Bulletin. Ethnology. 26 BUREAU OF AMERICAN" ETHNOLOGY [bull. 8(] " doorposts," and great care was taken to have the lines of the door- way perpendicular. The top of the structure was then covered with rolls of birch bark. One corner of each roll was fastened in place by a basswood cord which was passed between the sheets of ash bark and tied to the framework inside the wigwam. The whole was secured by basswood cord passed across the top and fastened to stakes driven in the ground. (PI. 4, c.) The poles which had been used for measuring the size of the wigwam were taken up and
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 26 BUREAU OF AMERICAN" ETHNOLOGY [bull. 8(] " doorposts," and great care was taken to have the lines of the door- way perpendicular. The top of the structure was then covered with rolls of birch bark. One corner of each roll was fastened in place by a basswood cord which was passed between the sheets of ash bark and tied to the framework inside the wigwam. The whole was secured by basswood cord passed across the top and fastened to stakes driven in the ground. (PI. 4, c.) The poles which had been used for measuring the size of the wigwam were taken up and a few sheets of ash bark were laid on the ground to serve as mats. The structure was neat, firm, and completed in a surprisingly short time. All the work was done by women, except that of driving the poles in the ground, bending them down, and holding them in position while they were tied in Fig. 3.—Sketch of frame of peaked lodge (5) Peaked lodge.—This, like the wigwam, consisted of a frame of poles covered with bark, but the structure instead of being dome shaped had a long ridgepole and flat sides that sloped to the ground. Sheets of elm or cedar bark like those used on the " bark houses " were placed on the sides of this lodge. Birch-bark rolls were simi- larly used and a peaked lodge with such a covering was seen and photographed in northern Minnesota by Bushnell in ;^ A simi- lar lodge was photographed by the writer at Grand Portage, Minn., in 1905. (PI. 5, I.) A Canadian Chippewa said that his people used this type of dwell- ing covered with birch bark or brush, and also made of logs. He described the erection of such a lodge, Figure 3 being made from his sketch. The crossed poles at the ends were first erected, then the =8 Bushnell, David I., jr., Native' Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi, Bull. 69, Bur. Amer. Ethn., Washington, 1919, pi. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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