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1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-222) and index. |
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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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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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| 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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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Great Plains.
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Indians of North America -- Dwellings. |
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Great Plains. |
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Earth houses -- Great Plains -- History.
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Earth houses. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Roper, Donna C.
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Pauls, Elizabeth P., 1964-
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Plains earth lodges |
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Print version: Plains earthlodges. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004058381 (OCoLC)56413048 |
| ISBN |
9780817384241 (electronic book) |
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0817384243 (electronic book) |
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0817314458 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817351639 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817314453 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817351632 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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