Navaho Houses
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Navaho Houses is a paper in the seventeenth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1895-96. The book says the winter hogáns are the real homes of the people, and that the summer shelters, which are largely exempt from such rules, are of considerable interest. The book speaks of the elaborate ceremonies of dedication which in the old days always followed the construction of a house, and are still practiced.
The text says that perhaps the most primitive and simple shelter the Navaho builds is a circle or part-circle of green boughs, generally pine or cedar, and that half an hour of work by two men with axes is all that is required to erect one of these. The book carries a rather full nomenclature of parts and elements of the house, including a crosspiece that rests upon the large doorway timbers and forms the base of the smoke-hole.
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- Cosmos Mindeleff
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