. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . ogether, against the wallof the building. This enclosure served to render thelodge itself warmer and more comfortable, besides beinguseful in many other ways. Here it was that the oldmen took their baths, and here also the dogs of the house-hold had their kennels or sleeping-places. Within thestructure proper each corner was customarily parti-tioned off into four little cupboards or answered to the hanging-shelves and treasure-chests of the coast Salish. Herein were stored thepersonal belongings and g
. British North America: I. The far West, the home of the Salish and Déné . ogether, against the wallof the building. This enclosure served to render thelodge itself warmer and more comfortable, besides beinguseful in many other ways. Here it was that the oldmen took their baths, and here also the dogs of the house-hold had their kennels or sleeping-places. Within thestructure proper each corner was customarily parti-tioned off into four little cupboards or answered to the hanging-shelves and treasure-chests of the coast Salish. Herein were stored thepersonal belongings and general impedimenta of thedifferent families who shared the house in common,one cupboard going customarily to each family. Among the Chilcotin and southern Carriers thewinter dwelling was a semi-subterranean hut similar tothat of the interior Salish. The characteristic dwellings of all the other nomadicDen6 were, and to a large extent still are, the conicalskin tepees, the framework of which is simply a numberof light poles set in a circle on the ground, and made Plate 12. K-l O Photo by C. W. Mathers, Vancouver, To face page 60 Plate 13
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