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a man. All the drudgery, the work of cooking, paddling the canoe, bringing firewood, pitching the tipi, in fact all the occupations of Indian life except such as unclear to war or the hunt or fishing revolve upon the women who seem to bear this labourious [[task??] with cheerful scratched out to consider that department as their appropriate sphere. At the gable end over the door is a shed or flat roof extending some eight or ten feet from the building & supported by posts unknown, This furnished a shady retreat where the inhabitants generally sit on benches or rather tables constructed on either side of the door, while the children & dogs play around in all the unclear on mats woven in tasteful patterns of unclear.