CHAPTER V.. Houses of Indian Tribes North of New Mexico.

HOUSES OF INDIAN TRIBES NORTH OF NEW MEXICO.

Houses of Indian tribes must be considered as parts of a common system of construction--A common principle runs through all its forms; that of adaptation to communism in living within the household--It explains this architecture--Communal houses of tribes in savagery; in California; in the valley of the Yukon; in the valley of the Columbia--Communal house of tribes in the lower status of barbarism-- Ojibwa lodge--Dakota skin tent--Long houses of Virginia Indians; of Nyach tribe on Long Island; of Seneca-Iroquois; of Onondaga-Iroquois-- Dirt Lodge of Mandans and Minnetarees--Thatched houses of Maricopas and Mohaves of the Colorado; of the Pimas of the Gila--What a comparison shows.