Indian women stand in front of their tipi camp' This image of Crow Indians in Montana was taken arou

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Indian women stand in front of their tipi camp.
This image of Crow Indians in Montana was taken
around 1890. Some Indian groups continued to live
in tipis until the early 1900s. Photo courtesy of
the Denver Public Library, Western History
Collection.
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Cliff Houses at Messe Verde
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Seminole Indians - Florida
The house is approximately 16 by 9 feet and is
made from material taken from the palmetto tree.
It is actually a platform elevated above the
ground and is open on all sides without rooms.
Only the space above the joists which are
extended across the building provide extra space
to place surplus food and general household
effects. The roof is about 12 feet above the
ground. Upright palmettos logs, unsplit and
undressed, support the roof and many rafters
sustain the palmetto thatching. The roof
thatching is a mass of palmetto leaves which is
held in place with heavy logs which are bound
together and laid astride the ridge pole. The
floor is made of split palmetto logs, flat sides
up, upon beams which are lashed to the uprights
by palmetto frond ropes. The covered platform
serves to furnish the inhabitants with a dry
sitting or lying down place. Household utensils,
are suspended from the uprights or pronged sticks
driven into the ground. (MacCauley 1887)
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South Puget Sound Indians
Two Puget Sound Indian girls standing in front of
a summer dwelling house, about 1900.  Their home,
garments, and baskets are made of cedar.  MSCUA,
University of Washington Libraries, NA690.
Two Puget Sound Indian elders in front of a
typical winter dwelling, around 1898. Photograph
by Anders B. Wilse, MSCUA, University of
Washington Libraries NA1347.
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The Mesquakie often built frame shelters covered
with bark, much like the one pictured here.