| Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology - 1880 - 802 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled ; but as there is but a small fire kept, sufficient to give... | |
| Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology - 1880 - 806 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled ; but as there is but a small fire kept, sufficient to give... | |
| Harvard university Peabody mus - 1880 - 804 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled ; but as there is but a small fire kept, suflicient to give... | |
| Harvard university Peabody mus - 1880 - 804 pages
...bound together by cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of Lark neatly placed, and tight enough to exclude the rain,...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled ; but as there is but a small fire kept, sufficient to give... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1925 - 944 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled; but as there is but a small ยป Hawkins in Oa. Hist. Soc.... | |
| Barnard Shipp - 1881 - 720 pages
...cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly plaeed, and tight enough to exclude the rain, and sometimes...door, which serves at the same time to admit light, and the smoke to escape when af,re is kindled ; but as there is but a small fire kept, sufficient to... | |
| 1887 - 698 pages
...are strengthened and bound, together by cross-beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed and tight enough to exclnde the rain, and sometimes they cast a thin superficies of earth over all. There is but one large... | |
| David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) - 1919 - 142 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...There is but one large door, which serves at the same tune to admit light from without and the smoke to escape when a fire is kindled; but as there is but... | |
| David Ives Bushnell - 1919 - 142 pages
...rafters are strengthened and bound together by cross beams and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight...serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoke to escape when a fire is kindled; but as there is but a small fire kept, sufficient to give... | |
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