Native american houses

A Clip Art Collection of Native American Houses, containing 25 historically and culturally accurate images of traditional Native American dwellings from across the country. From the wigwams of the Eastern Woodlands to the plank houses of the Pacific Northwest, they're all in here! Also included is...

Native American Homes

Objective: Students will discuss the attributes of Native American dwellings. They will consider the portability, temperature requirements, and size of the dwellings to determine if the builders i…

Multi-storey adobe houses at Taos Peublo, New Mexico. Taos Pueblo is a native American community of earth structures arranged around a central plaza, and has been continuously occupied since AD 1350.

Eastern North Carolina has been the citadel of the state’s colonial history and European cultural heritage ever since Sir Walter Raleigh’s dream of colonization at Roanoke came to so mysterious an end. Legends tell of pirate treasure buried beneath the dunes of the Outer Banks, and rusting smokestacks, masts, and boilers protrude from offshore waters, testimony to the more than 2,000 ships that have gone down. Nearby Nags Head got its name, according to tradition, because unscrupulous…

Awesome house

Adobe houses are Native American house complexes used by the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Adobe pueblos are multi-story houses made of adobe (clay & straw baked into hard bricks) or of large stones cemented together with adobe. Each adobe unit is home to one family, like a modern apartment. The whole structure, which can contain dozens of units, is often home to an entire extended clan. These are good homes to build in a warm, dry climate where adobe can be easily mixed and dried.