. Bulletin. Ethnology. SNOW HOUSE OF CENTRAL ESKIMO. a, FRONT VIEW; h, GROUND plan; e, section, (boas) These houses are sometimes 40 by 100 ft in the NootkaandSalish region, and are occu- pied by a numljer of families. Formerly some of the Haida houses are said to have been built on platforms supported by posts; some of these seen by such early navigators as Vancouver were 25 or 30 ft aboveground, access being had by notched logs serving as ladders. Among the N. W. inland tribes, as the Nez Perces, the dwell- i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have


. Bulletin. Ethnology. SNOW HOUSE OF CENTRAL ESKIMO. a, FRONT VIEW; h, GROUND plan; e, section, (boas) These houses are sometimes 40 by 100 ft in the NootkaandSalish region, and are occu- pied by a numljer of families. Formerly some of the Haida houses are said to have been built on platforms supported by posts; some of these seen by such early navigators as Vancouver were 25 or 30 ft aboveground, access being had by notched logs serving as ladders. Among the N. W. inland tribes, as the Nez Perces, the dwell- i. 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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