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Ojibway (Chippewa) bark house, "O-na-ge.ho-ga-meg." length 12 feet 10 inches width 17 " height at peak 9 feet

   "     at wall    4   "  8 inches

door. height 5 " 3 inches

       width        1   "   3   "    (Haupt det)

Interior end view of the Ojibway. bark house, "O-na-ge-ho-ga.meg."

is largest at right angles to the gable while the white man's is largest in the line of the gable. We are inclined to the opinion that this frame is borrowed from the very early white settlers, but it is very unlike any that the whites now build for themselves or the indians The upright parts are set up in a sufficient number and of the proper height. This ridge is about (9) nine feet high and the walls four feet eight inches the length twelve feet, ten inches and the width (as compared with the dimensions of a white man's house) seventeen feet. to the vertical posts are tied with [?] wood files, horizontal pieces about two inches in diameter at intervals of almost a [?] on ten inches. This [?] is there cereal with plates of the outer bark of the Jack or White Pine, "Pinus Stribus" or Tamarach. "Larix Americana" and seldome the Oaks. These plates are cut about two feet wide and thirty to thirty six inches long. and flattened and tied to the frame to make the roof and walls of the house. All round the back is allowed to project over the wall to form the eves. The internal frame is reinforced by a series of posts planted in the ground vertically against the gable ends and a long pole extending over the roof as tip of the [?] plate. all their poles and tied securely with Bass wood bark. In this home like the Wigwam the door is at the east and west ends. It is not easy to understand the reason for two doors except that it is intended to prevent surprise. Most indians make but one door to their house and that being guarded by an enemy they are usually taken, but with two the chances of escape is doubled. The apex of the roof is open in the centre to allow for the egress of smoke. The only furniature of the "Bark home" or wigwam consists of a shelf or platform raised about a foot or more above the ground and about six