| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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What, where, and when is an earthlodge? / Donna C. Roper and Elizabeth P. Pauls -- Confounding stereotypes / Michael Scullin -- Architecture as a source of cultural conservation / Elizabeth P. Pauls -- From earthlodge to medicine lodge? / Margot P. Liberty -- Middle ceramic period earthlodges as the products of craft traditions / Donald J. Blakeslee -- Earthlodge dynamics 101 / Donna C. Roper -- This old earthlodge village / Stephen C. Lensink -- Geophysical signatures of earthlodges in the Dakotas / Jennifer R. Bales and Kenneth L. Kwamme -- Future directions for earthlodge research / Elizabeth P. Pauls and Donna C. Roper |
| Summary |
Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers of willows, grass, and earth, and with a tunnel-like entryway and a smoke hole in the center of the roof. The products of nearly a millennium of engineering development, historic period lodges were massively built. With diameters up to 60 feet across, they comprise the largest and most complex artifacts built on the Plains until the 20th century. Sheltering nuclear or extended famil |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-222) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Great Plains
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Earth houses -- Great Plains -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Earth houses
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Indians of North America -- Dwellings
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Erdhaus
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Bauweise
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Great Plains
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Plainsindianer.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Roper, Donna C
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Pauls, Elizabeth P., 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780817384241 |
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0817384243 |
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