Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner.

  • Alanson Skinner
Date:
1921
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Credit: Material culture of the Menomini / by Alanson Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acter), bend the poles toward the center of the long sides of the rectangle, and lash them together with basswood-bark. To accomplish this, one of the women takes her pack-strap and throws it over the upper end of a pole and bends it down to where she can reach it. She then holds it fast, while the other pulls down the opposite pole. These doorposts having been con¬ nected, the other poles are set up and arched over them transversely, and all are bound together in the same way. A mat is laid on the floor, in the center, to mark the fireplace. The door usually faces the south, in order to catch the sunlight, and to be protected from wind and rain. When this has been done, a double roof- mat of cattail-flags is taken and its width measured around the side of the lodge, from the bottom of the frame upward, starting at the outside of one of the doorposts, and working around to the other. Guided by this gauge a horizontal ring of saplings is bound around the framework from door¬ post to doorpost, about three to four feet from the ground, corresponding to roof
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