| American Ethnological Society - America - 1848 - 894 pages
...after the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...placed of a side, drawn in as they rise. On these, dong poles or rafters, to suit the height of the building, are laid, the upper ends forming a point,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1925 - 944 pages
...after the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...On these, five or six logs are placed, of a side, Fio. 3.— Later pattern of Creek Ceremonial or Busk Ground. Bartram.) (Alter » Adair, Hist. Am. Inds.,... | |
| David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) - America - 1919 - 142 pages
...was known as the "hot-house." "Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...projecting out six feet from the octagon, and resting on posts five feet high, placed in a circle round the octagon, with plates on them, to which the rafters... | |
| David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) - America - 1919 - 160 pages
...was known as the "hot-house." "Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...projecting out six feet from the octagon, and resting on posts five feet high, placed in a circle round the octagon, with plates on them, to which the rafters... | |
| John Reed Swanton - Indians of North America - 1946 - 1106 pages
...after the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...projecting out six feet from the octagon, and resting on posts five feet high, placed in a circle round the octagon, with plates on them, to which the rafters... | |
| Thomas M. N. Lewis, Madeline Kneberg, Madeline D. Kneberg Lewis, Charles H. Nash - History - 1984 - 338 pages
...after the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...projecting out six feet from the octagon, and resting on posts five feet high, placed in a circle round the octagon, with plates on them, to which the rafters... | |
| David J. Hally - Social Science - 1994 - 268 pages
...after the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet diameter. They are twelve feet high, and large enough...projecting out six feet from the octagon, and resting on posts five feet high, placed in a circle round the octagon, with plates on them, to which the rafters... | |
| Marcia Haag, Henry Willis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 404 pages
..."hot-house." This is near the square, and it is constructed in the following manner: Eight posts are fixed in the ground, forming an octagon of thirty feet in diameter....lower ends projecting out six feet from the octagon, making the diameter of the building about 42 feet, with plates on them, to which the rafters are tied... | |
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