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" Is near the square, and is constructed 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 to support the roof. On these, five or six logs are placed,... "
History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the ... - Page 106
by Albert James Pickett - 1851 - 445 pages
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Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, Volumes 2-3

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,...
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Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the ..., Volume 42

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.,...
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Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi

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...
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Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi

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...
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Indians of the Southeastern United States

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...
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Hiwassee Island: An Archaeological Account of Four Tennessee Indian Peoples

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...
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Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986

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...
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Choctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa, Volume 1

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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