Infant burials in high proportions also have been documented in Iroquoian longhouses. |
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The vast 17-acre site is populated with members of the Sarawak's various ethnic groups and their longhouses. |
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In the grounds behind the museum there are two longhouses in Haida tribal style, as well as ten more totem poles. |
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By AD 1500, settlements were large, pallisaded villages with longhouses and garden plots capable of supporting up to 250-300 people. |
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Dozens of skulls hang overhead, making the longhouses a mysterious and scary place. |
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The Iroquois traditionally lived in longhouses, impressively striking in appearance. |
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The Haida's reputation isn't well known south of the border, but their canoes, longhouses, and cedar totem poles represent a high point in North American art. |
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They danced inside and underneath the enormous longhouses, concluding the celebrations with the consumption of large amounts of prepared foods, including sago and yams. |
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In traditional longhouses it is only possible to reach the house from the cowhouse passage. |
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Excavations during the 1960s revealed four longhouses, many featuring a central drainage channel, and several smaller houses and barns. |
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However, both Rajina and Serai attend Christmas church services when they return to their longhouses at the end of the year. |
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The majority of excavated Viking Age longhouses in Iceland are 12-16m in length, but a few longhouses are significantly larger. |
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It is modeled on the longhouses of the Kalapuya Indians who lived in this part of the Willamette Valley before white settlers arrived. |
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The longhouses of the Early Neolithic are associated with farmers colonizing westward and northward. |
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They were wealthy and owned large estates with huge longhouses, horses and many thralls. |
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In later centuries, the longhouses were adapted and expanded, often with the addition of an upper floor and a granite porch to protect against the elements. |
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Many villagers lived in various types of houses, which the Algonquins called wigwams, though large families often lived in longhouses that could be a hundred feet long. |
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Evidence of multiple longhouses at a single site have been found they are thought to date to different periods, rather than being of the same date. |
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