Identifier: annualreportofbu23smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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, and where guests are entertained. When theroom is required for the use of some frat(>rnity, the faujily adjournsto other quarters, moving all its belongings. In this room the famih*wardrobe hangs on a pole suspended from the rafters. The niore val-uable tilings, especially the ceremonial paraphernalia, are carefullywrap))ed and deposited in the storage rooms. As a rule the mills forgrinding meal are set up in the general living room. They consist ofthree or more slabs of stone, of different degrees of lineness of grain,set side by side at an angle of about 45° and separated by uprightslabs, the whole surrounded by other slabs, making an inclosure foreach mill. Most of the rooms are provided with fireplaces, of which there areseveral varieties. One style is formed by a wall several feet high and i> See p. 168, note 6. &One man has been the only member o£ this clan for the past ten or twelve yearj;. cThis clan became extinct in 1902 by the death of an aged shiwanni. •cr-
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oo o z iZ STEVENSON) SOCIAL CUSTOMS 293 of enual breadth extending at right angles from one of the longer wallsof the room, the projecting wall being so placed as to protect the fire-place from the doorway. A commodious mantel usiiall) extends over apart of the fireplace, and on it rests the masonry chimney, reachingup through the roof, while the exterior chimney is composed of old-potteiy vessels with perforated t)ottoms. Cooking vessels ai-e set onstones in the fireplaces; food is also cooked in the coals and ashes. -One room of every dwelling of any pretension has a .fireplace ofpeculiar construction. It is from 6 to 12 feet wide and has a projectionabove like a Chinese awning. When the great, ceremonial caldronsare used for the feasts, they are balanced on stones in this fireplace.Hewe (wafer bread) is also baked in this fireplace upon highly polished stone slabs. The room, however, is not exclusivel) set apart for thiscooking. Like most of the rooms, except the general living roo

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