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Longhouse Model This longhouse model was made by Yoga Kurniawain. It is based on drawings we had of longhouses at Ste. Marie among the Huron and on drawings and descriptions found in documents.
Longhouses were made entirely of natual products. Two rows of saplings were bent towards each other to form an arch. Saplings were then woven into the arch rather like weaving cloth. A layer of bark completed this simple but effective architecture. There were no windows and the doors were placed at the ends. Drawings by early explorers often show a very tidy lodge, but the Jesuits complained that they were dark, filled with smoke and pungent. Longhouses were heated by a combination of hearth fires down the centre of the lodge and body heat. Holes poked in the roof provided ventilation but longhouses, like European-style log houses, would have been drafty by today's standards.
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