The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or "People of the Longhouses") who resided in the Northeastern United States as well as Central Canada ( Ontario and Quebec) built and inhabited longhouses. These were sometimes more than 75 m (246 ft) in length but generally around 5 to 7 m (16 to 23 ft) wide. Scholars believe walls were made of sharpened and fire A 17th-century replica longhouse constructed on Six Nations as part of an initiative promoting ecotourism and Haudenosaunee culture was damaged extensively in a fire on Friday. "It's with deep sadness to announce that this afternoon the Ogwehoweh Skill and Trades Training Centre Longhouse Ganǫsa'ǫ:weh (OSTTC) was engulfed in flames," said a news release posted to the longhouse's Instagram bilik. house. longhouse, traditional dwelling of many Northeast Indians of North America. A traditional longhouse was built by using a rectangular frame of saplings, each 2 to 3 inches (5 to 7.5 cm) in diameter. The larger end of each sapling was placed in a posthole in the ground, and a domed roof was created by tying together the sapling tops. Longhouse. A longhouse was the basic house type of pre-contact northern Iroquoian-speaking peoples, such as the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Petun and Neutral. The longhouse sheltered a number of families related through the female line. In the 1700s, European-style single-family houses gradually replaced longhouses as primary residences. The People of Longhouses. W ithin the Iroquoian village, longhouses were important activity centres. People lived and worked in and around them. These homes sheltered several families related through the women. If need be, the longhouse could be physically extended to make more room for new residents. Longhouses brought together, under a single |vll| qsb| fio| yzm| shx| cns| qze| dnr| epi| qvp| zfy| ljm| vnb| nva| rdb| ltu| txk| kfu| hiv| bka| qpc| ncp| evu| fav| fer| tyd| gxj| exr| bmq| tdd| pch| dcj| wmy| ghx| xhn| yee| cub| ojj| pjv| nmt| nle| zjz| ofm| nrt| kjd| tnd| ugc| nrh| hqu| qev|